enable Digital Signatures

[alichino]

According to Adobe, acrobat allows a user to create a form, this form can then be forwarded to a series of other users that can add data to the form and sign the form with both Acrobat and Acrobat Reader. In fact here is the text from acrobat reader's online help book (

http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/pdfs/acrruserguide.pdf):

"If the creator of a PDF document enabled the Digital Signatures feature, you can digitally
sign PDF documents to attest to its contents. If this feature is not enabled, you can only
view, print, and validate digital signatures. To certify documents, you must use Acrobat."

I have created a document, pdf'ed this document, then inserted form fields onto the document (Using Acrobat 5.0). I have checked the security of this document (set to NONE) and sent this document to a user who is running only Acrobat Reader 6.0. This user is able to alter the text fields in the form, but is not able to digital sign the document. I have verified that the user has a created a valid identity in Reader, but still now luck. Does anyone have any idea what I'm doing wrong?

 

[alichino]

I've found the answer.

It appears that Adobe Acrobat is not the tool it claims to be, if in fact you want to create signable documents you need an entirely different set of tools from adobe.

Alichino