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Lou Wrench
04-02-2008, 11:47 AM
Hey, Acrobat is one quiet site!! Does that mean nobody has problems? or nobody uses it?
I am just going through the "Classroom in a Book" (Acrobat 8) to learn about signing and verifying forms (I am a repro guy from way back but have been in DTP since the 80s, and do typesetting/design in ID CS3). What I am trying to do for a friend is set up a way an Estate agent (Realtor in Americanese?) can write up an offer to purchase on a PDF form and digitaly sign it, e-mail it to a client, who alters the form as a counter offer and e-mails it back. Although the book tells me how to sign it, it does not tell me how the client verifies this signature or how I verify the clients returned signature.
I don't expect a step by step instructions, but I know that if there is a relavent site out there someone knows it!
Regards
Lou

The Repro Kid
04-02-2008, 03:07 PM
Howdy Lou. Sounds like a Realtor for us non-monarch challenged english speakers. An Estate Manager might be mistaken for an Executor of will ;)

Anyway, have you tired the Adobe Video Workshop? They have some nice stuff.

http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/video_workshop/

I'm not sure with Acrobat, but I believe the whole concept with digital signatures in general is that one party or the other, or both, each have a two part "Key." One party e-mails the other party one half of their Key beforehand. Then during the exchange of documents, the signatures are verified by matching up the two pieces of the Key.

Lou Wrench
04-02-2008, 04:59 PM
Repro,
Sorry didn't mean to rub it in… but when a country has two Queens, one who rules a nation and one that rules Rock…
Thanks for the site I will look at it in the morning
Lou

The Repro Kid
04-03-2008, 10:55 AM
… but when a country has two Queens, one who rules a nation and one that rules Rock…

¿huh? wow you stumped me. is that like Mont python or something:confused:

Lou Wrench
04-03-2008, 11:25 AM
Repro
Try this site for your cultural education
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ADh8Fs3YdU&feature=related
Lou