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krombi
krombi

Reputation: 522

PDF Certification signature: View initial revision

I have a pdf document with multiple signature fields. The first field is signed with a certification signature. Whenever an approval signature is added to my document, a new revision is created and it is possible to view this specific revision in acrobat.

Is it also possible to view the original/initial version of the document? I cannot find this option in acrobat reader.

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Edit: @mkl showed me the solution. I didn't find this option before, because I always used a rather old sample pdf from adobe (see screenshot).

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For some reason the 'View signed version' option is not available there

Upvotes: 0

Views: 323

Answers (1)

mkl
mkl

Reputation: 95898

[For] an approval signature [...] it is possible to view this specific revision in acrobat.

Is it also possible to view the original/initial version of the document? I cannot find this option in acrobat reader.

In your screen shot you show that the option to view the signed revision is immediately accessible from the signature panel for approval signatures but not for certification signatures.

If you right-click a signature there, though, to get its context menu, you'll find that option there for certification signatures, too:

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PS: In English speaking forums it may be better to switch the language of a program to English before making a screen shot.

In a comment you say about that option that

for the sample doc I always used for evaluating, it is not available (see my edit). Do you have any idea what's different?

Your example file is not a "normal" PDF, it merely serves as a container for transporting a XFA form definition. (These piggyback XFA definitions have been deprecated in ISO 32000-2.)

When Adobe Reader (or an other XFA aware PDF viewer; there are not many) displays such a PDF, it ignores regular PDF contents completely and instead draws a form based on the attached XFA XML file.

Apparently Adobe's signature panel does not support the same features for such XFA PDFs as it does for "normal" PDFs.

Upvotes: 1

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