On 6-Apr-2010, at 08:09, Paul Sargent wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 20:41, LuKreme <[email protected]> wrote: >> Several years ago I had a pdf sent to me that I needed to sign and send >> back. I opened the pdf, pasted in a digital copy of my signature, emailed >> it, and was done. >> >> Trying to duplicate that today, I am unable to paste the signature graphic >> into the pdf document. > > I'm not trying to be a spoil sport here. I'm genuinely interested, but > isn't this a rather glaring security problem? > > Wouldn't the signature stay as a separate layer in the PDF, and hence > be 'cut and paste'-able onto any document the recipient wanted? I know > a bit of Photoshop can do the same for any document, but doesn't this > make it stupidly easy?
No, the pdf file is not layered. The signature becomes a part of the document, not a separate object. -- 'When you've been a wizard as long as I have, my boy, you'll learn that as soon as you find anything that offers amazing possibilities for the improvement of the human condition, it's best to put the lid back on and pretend it never happened.' --The Last Continent _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
