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Topic: What is legal when "printing" to PDF? (Italy and Europe)
Conf: (P-PDF) Legal, Msg: 166702
From: davidec
Date: 7/31/2008 09:20 PM

Hello!

I'm from Italy, where PDF files are legally accepted as envelope of digital signatures and timestamps. I suppose it is so also in the rest of Europe and guess in many other countries as well.

I need to convert different types of files into PDF: say, MS Word, JPEG images, HTML and MS XLS. This task is to be done by batch jobs, without human intervention.

I thought I could include JPEG images directly inside the PDF, but what about the other types? I could print a .doc document, but an HTML could be too wide to fit to a page. The same applies to the .xls...

My question is: are there any operations which are considered "legal" when converting to PDF? For example scaling images... Or is there a way to include a generic file inside a PDF?

Thanks in advance!!

PS: Does any of you at least have experience in "dematerializing" Ledgers, Journals and Invoices? Any advice?