faisal,

as this forum foremost is a mailing list, it is fairly bad style to answer a
posting which is more than 4 years old without quoting any context.

faisal wrote
> but Adobe Acrobat 9/10 allows to add/update a signed pdf and after that
> change adobe verify the signature successfully.
> 
> I believe there is something wrong while updating a signed document with
> Itext.

Have a look at the Adobe Technical White Paper "Adobe Acrobat 9 Digital
Signatures, Changes and Improvements"
(http://wwwimages.adobe.com/www.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/devnet/reader/pdfs/readercomp_digitalsignatures.pdf),
especially the section "Allowed and disallowed changes".

For certified documents it states that allowed changes cannot be more than
Adding or editing annotations, Supplying form field values, and Digitally
signing; and disallowed changes cannot be less than Adding form fields and
Changing page content.

For signed but uncertified documents allowed changes are Adding signature
fields, Adding or editing annotations, Supplying form field values, and
Digitally signing; disallowed changes are Adding form fields other than
signature fields and Changing page content.

Thus, if "Adobe Acrobat 9/10 allows to add/update a signed pdf" in other
ways "and after that change adobe verify the signature successfully", it
would have to be considered a bug.

This behavior, BTW, is compatible with ISO 32000-1:2008
(http://www.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/PDF32000_2008.pdf).

Regards,   Michael



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