----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Siegfried Goeschl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 3:40 PM
Subject: [iText-questions] [signature] - Acrobat Reader 7.0 complains about
modification of a signed PDF


> Hi folks,
>
> I signed a PDF document using itext-paulo-153 and JDK 1.4.2. Acrobat
> Reader 7.0 complains that the signature is okay but the document has
> changed (3 misc changes) ... this is the same problem that Joachim
> Kerschbaumer had in February (hello, by the way).
>
> +) Paulo meant this has something to do with the certificate so I tested
> it with two different certificates to no avail - I agree that the A-CERT
> certificate is touchy so I used a webtrust.de certificate as well
>

The problem was with the german version of Acrobat Reader 7. The icon didn't
match the text. The english version was ok.

> +) I signed the same PDF manually with Acrobat Writer 6.0 and 7.0 and
> this problem does not appear
>

You may not be signing the same way as iText.

> +) Not being lazy I tested it with the german and english version of
> Acrobat Reader but this doesn't make any difference
>

It did in the case of Joachim.

> +) Quite interestingly the number of changes are depending on the usage
> of visible/invisible signature. I assumed that the Acrobat Reader 7.0
> might tinker around depending on the PDF version so I enforced writing
> out PDF 1.5
>
> +) This problem does not appear when using Acrobat Reader 6.0 - so this
> problem might be introduced with PDF 1.6 and Acrobat 7.0?!
>

Show us the pdfs and the steps you took to sign them.

> Has anyone an idea what's going on?!
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Siegfied Goeschl
>
>
>
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