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Topic: Re: Adobe 6 with forms and digital signatures? (Via Email)
Conf: (P-PDF) Acrobat 6.0, Msg: 89540
From: LeonardR
Date: 6/11/2003 09:27 AM
At 06:10 AM 6/10/2003 +1000, p-pdf-acrobat6 Listmanager wrote:
>I am looking to create a solution that involves users of Adobe 6 Reader to
>be able to fill out forms, digitally sign them with Reader (using the
>Reader Extensions), and then capture the data that was input into an
>ODBC-compliant database. I also want to possibly validate the signature
>during data capture.
A couple of questions...
1) When you say "capture", I assume the posting the results to a web server
will be OK, yes?
2) Do you mean validate (as in the signature and data are correct and
match) OR that you will authenticate the signature of the person against an
existing trust hierarchy?
>I was thinking of using Acrobat 6.0 Pro to create the form.
That's fine, though you also want to look at form designing tools
such as Adobe's, and others...
> Then, I could enable form fill-out and digital signatures in the form by
> obtaining the proper license keys from adobe.
The ONLY way to Reader Enable a PDF is to purchase a copy of Adobe
Document Server + Reader Extensions.
>Now for form data capture on the server side, do I need to use the FDF
>toolkit to do programmatic capture?
That is one way to process the incoming data from the form. You
could also have the data submitted as XFDF (an XML varient of FDF).
>I know I can capture the form data. However, does that also include
>digital signature capture
If you use FDF or XFDF (in Acrobat 6), yes.
>and signature validation?
Nope. You have to do anything validation and/or authentication
yourself.
Leonard
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