[iText-questions] New revision issues

2013-05-17 Thread twain
Hi all, I have a problem about signing a signed pdf. - starting from a valid signed pdf. Signature covers whole document. - sign this pdf applying an image on a text field(there is a reason to do this). The signature is applied on a signature field - when I open the signed pdf I find that the

Re: [iText-questions] New revision issues

2013-05-17 Thread Paulo Soares
The first signature is not invalidated, it's just Acrobat 's way of saying it's not the last. I think Acrobat started behaving like this in 8. If you extract the first revision it will still verify ok. Paulo On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 8:26 AM, twain ant.mari...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I have a

Re: [iText-questions] New revision issues

2013-05-17 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
You have modified the original document, thus it's signature is no longer valid (trustable). Leonard On 5/17/13 10:46 AM, Paulo Soares pgpsoa...@gmail.com wrote: The first signature is not invalidated, it's just Acrobat 's way of saying it's not the last. I think Acrobat started behaving like

Re: [iText-questions] New revision issues

2013-05-17 Thread twain
Ok, but what about the meaning of revision? If I sign a pdf than I cannot modify it, and it doesn't matter if I create a new revision. -- View this message in context: http://itext-general.2136553.n4.nabble.com/New-revision-issues-tp4658282p4658285.html Sent from the iText - General mailing

Re: [iText-questions] New revision issues

2013-05-17 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
You can always modify a non-encrypted/secured PDF. Signing a PDF doesn't prevent modification, it simply enables the ability to DETECT modification. Leonard On 5/17/13 11:01 AM, twain ant.mari...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, but what about the meaning of revision? If I sign a pdf than I cannot

Re: [iText-questions] New revision issues

2013-05-17 Thread twain
I'll try to explain better my situation. About Michael doc: I never used certification signature but only approval signature. So I never set any level to prevent modification. About Leonard reply: the problem is that, even if I used a new revision, Acrobat complains that the first signature is

Re: [iText-questions] New revision issues

2013-05-17 Thread twain
Sorry, I read the latest doc from Michael after my previous reply. Ok, so this doc says that if I have a pdf signed with approval signature I cannot modify it page contents. So revision is useless in this case. Thank you. -- View this message in context:

Re: [iText-questions] New revision issues

2013-05-17 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
If you don't use a certification signature, then you aren't stating any rules for modification - which is considered to mean NO modifications. So if you modify the document after signature, then it's invalid. Clear? If you wish to allow certain types of modifications after signing, then you need