The question here was how to append another signature to an already signed and encrypted document. I can't do it in Acrobat so, I suppose that it's not to be done.
Best Regards, Paulo Soares > -----Original Message----- > From: Leonard Rosenthol [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, December 20, 2004 3:48 PM > To: Wahaj; Paulo Soares; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Signing a pdf document which > is originally encrypted > > At 10:19 AM 12/20/2004, Wahaj wrote: > >Ok then what is the purpose of the provided password > (whether owner's or > >user's) in the PDFReader constructor > > In order to allow you to read a document that has been > encrypted. For example, to retrieve metadata. > > > >if we can't sign a pdf document. > > Modifications on encrypted document, esp. something > as complex as > signing, requires a LOT more internal mechanics inside of iText than > currently exist. In addition, there are a variety of legal and > philosophical issues involved when done as TWO processes. > > Normally, you'd want to have encrypted and signing > done at the > same time by the same tool. > > So if you know the passwords to the documents (and > you would have > to do make this useful anyway) - just decrypt them all and then rerun > through iText for both crypt and sign. > > > Leonard > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------- > Leonard Rosenthol > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Chief Technical Officer <http://www.pdfsages.com> > PDF Sages, Inc. 215-938-7080 (voice) > 215-938-0880 (fax) > > ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/ _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions
