Hello, may I ask whether any investigation into this issue have been made? Or if any assistance with it would be welcome?
Regards, Michael. Paulo Soares wrote: > > This has all to be investigated and a solution will be include in the > release after the next. For the moment I don't have the time to look at > it. > > Paulo > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Michael Klink" <m...@wir-sind-cool.org> > To: <itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net> > Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2008 10:05 PM > Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Signature not found : Bug or feature ? > > > Paulo, > > but to find those orphan signature fields I do have to loop through all of > them, don't I? And furthermore, why shouldn't there be other kinds of > fields > without a visual representation? > > My main question, though, still is whether iText somehow hickups when the > AcroFields fields member is enhanced like this, especially considering > PdfStamper and PdfCopy* using AcroFields when generating new PDFs. > > Michael. > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Paulo Soares [mailto:psoa...@glintt.com] > Gesendet: Freitag, 7. November 2008 19:47 > An: Post all your questions about iText here > Betreff: Re: [iText-questions] Signature not found : Bug or feature ? > > It may not be needed to loop through all the fields. This situation can > only > occur if the sigflags are set and there's an orphan signature field with a > rectangle [0 0 0 0]. > > Paulo > > ________________________________________ > From: Michael Klink [...@wir-sind-cool.org] > Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 3:08 PM > To: itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Signature not found : Bug or feature ? > > Hello, > > I happened to come across signatures just like the one Andreas Kühne > posted > in September. As I need to be able to handle these signatures fairly soon > (at least it looks like a greater hassle to persuade my users not to use > the > secunet application that creates these signatures), I created a small > helper > method that adds these signature fields not referenced in the annotation > arrays of the document pages; this helper has to be applied to an > AcroFields > instance right after getting it from the PdfReader. Essentially it > replaces > the data collected by AcroFields.fill() with an extended set of fields in > a > way inspired by the that very method. > > It seems to work alright in my first tests, even though there might be > some > object releasing still to do; and obviously the duplicate code inside that > method is not artful coding. > > Primarily I do wonder, though, whether iText might have any trouble when > later confronted with these additional entries among its fields, > especially > considering the PdfStamper and PdfCopy* classes when writing derived PDF > documents. > > Regards, Michael. > > > Paulo Soares <psoares <at> glintt.com> writes: > >> I'm not sure if this is a bug from iText but this things appear now and >> then and, >> like it or not, if it works in Acrobat it must be right. I'll "fix" it. >> >> Paulo >> >> > -----Original Message----- >> > From: itext-questions-bounces <at> lists.sourceforge.net >> > [mailto:itext-questions-bounces <at> lists.sourceforge.net] On >> > Behalf Of Andreas Kuehne >> > Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2008 4:08 PM >> > To: Post all your questions about iText here >> > Subject: [iText-questions] Signature not found : Bug or feature ? >> > >> > Hi, >> > >> > I'm not sure whether I'm going to submit a bug or request a >> > new feature : >> > >> > The AcroFields class has method returning all signatures ( >> > getSignatureNames() ). >> > >> > Now I came across a pdf with a signature that doesn't get >> > returned by getSignatureNames(). On the other hand the >> > Acrobat Reader shows the signature without any problems. >> > >> > Analyzing the code shows that AcroFields are expected to be >> > related to a page. But the signature doesn't ! >> > So my question is : >> > >> > Is it a bug to expect every signature to be assigned to a >> > page ( what isn't neccessarily so ) ? >> > Or do AcroFields are expected to be page-related 'by nature', >> > so my signature is just no AcroField and I must look for >> > another way to retrieve the signature ? >> > >> > The problematic signed PDF is attached. >> > >> > Opinions welcome >> > >> > Andreas -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Re%3A-Signature-not-found-%3A-Bug-or-feature---tp20382425p23485698.html Sent from the iText - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanners deliver under ANY circumstances! Your production scanning environment may not be a perfect world - but thanks to Kodak, there's a perfect scanner to get the job done! 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