add digital signature to a report

[mwa]

Currently, I have some crystal reports that are printed to paper and "approved" by department heads by using a physical pen and ink signature. I would like for a department head to be able to digitally "sign" these reports.

I know that Adobe Acrobat 5.0 has the ability to digitally sign a PDF document and I would like to do something similar to this using CR and asp over the web. Is it possible to add a digital signature to a crystal report?

I don't think CR was designed to do something like this but can anybody think of anyway to do something similar?

Thanks in advance,
mwa

 

[Ngolem]

You could always have a bitmap graphic of a signature inserted into the appropriate place. If there were several potential signer's you could have several fields overlapping one another with all but the one you wanted showing being suppressed.

Jim Broadbent

 

[synapsevampire]

You could prompt the user for acceptance using an ASP screen, then set a parameter or formula that controls a suppression formula of the signature within the report.

-k

 

[mwa]

I see how both of those could work...

With the bitmaps, My only problem is that we could potentially have 100+ Approvers (we have over 75 sites plus a central admin site) and keeping track of the everchanging signature bitmap files would not be easy. Also, I'm sure that users would not want to give up a digital copy of their signature...

I was kind of thinking along the lines of what synapsevampire said with passing a parameter from the asp page... I need to look into that...

Any other ideas out there?