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> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 
> Behalf Of Jorge Ortiz Claver
> Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 9:38 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [iText-questions] Digital signature of PDF documents
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I´ve just started a project were digital signature of PDF 
> documents is required
> and I wonder how iText might help me with its implementation.
> 
> Signature process would involve the following steps:
> 
> (1) Convert MS Office documents (Word, Excel, etc.) into PDF 
> documents.
> (2) Merge those documents into a single PDF document.

Pdfcopy or PdfSmartCopy.

> (3) Assign signature permissions to the document (I guess it 
> means also add
> placeholders for the signatures)

If you are going to sign it you don't have to create empty signatures first. 
You can but there's no need to.

Paulo

> (4) Sign of the PDF document
> (5) Validation of the PDF integraty and digital signature
> (6) Extract X509 certificate which the document was sign with 
> in order to
> validate it.
> 
> After reading documentation I´ve realized points 2-6 can be 
> implemented with
> iText, but I´d appreciatted anyone comments or suggestions, 
> specially about
> steps 2 and 3.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Jorge Ortiz


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