There's other work underway to address all that. Stay tuned!
Paulo
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> Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Certified PDF - Level permission
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> Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't understand how this patch
> could contribute
> to the "Certified-PDF" issue.
> If we don't change the way approval-signature are applied to
> "certified-pdfs",
> this is IMHO useless.
> I recall you that currently with iText, signatures are
> applied through
> the creation of a NEW
> signature field (hiding the original one), whilst certified-PDFs
> require that signatures be applied by filling
> (reusing) an existing signature-field.
>
> I agree that this change should be the first step for creating
> certified-pdfs,
> but then, how to add approval-signatures ?
>
>
> * Another note:
>
> I think that the name of "isCertified" method (from
> PdfSignatureAppearance) is
> misleading (and maybe useless as a public method);
> Currently this method applies not to the (original) document; it is
> for the signature
> I'm going to add. In this case, I *know* I'm adding a signature (with
> a given certificationLevel),
> and then I have no need to to query for it
> ( ... is the signature I'm going to add a certification-signature ? )
>
> Moreover, the proposed changes are not compatible with
> previous apps (
> the new method has different params).
>
> I support Paulo's request for a method for checking the certification-
> level of an existing document.
> I think there should be a method like "getCertificationLevel()" for
> the PdfReader class, and then a specific method (maybe with the same
> name) within the AcroFields class.
> I mean, I should be able to check with a simple call:
> a) is the document I'm reading a certified-document ( and which is
> the certification-level) ?
> b) is the AcroField I'm examining a certification-signature-field ?
>
>
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