Web signatures for a generated PDF?

Report · Jul 26, 2017

Hello,

I've built a web application where a user can be presented with generated PDFs. What I mean by "generated" is that they start out as a Reporting Service report and are then converted to a PDF and presented to the user (either in a web page or displayed in Reader).

My hope is that the user could sign the PDF/report and return it with a click of the button (closing the web page or PDF if successful).

Can anyone share a recommended way of doing this with Adobe products (or with abilities within Reader like using the SDK/Javascript)?

Note that we aren't looking for a cloud solution and would like the easiest workflow possible (without having to email, or manually download/upload documents).

Any help is appreciated!

Thanks,

Chuck

Report · Jul 26, 2017

The one big problem I see here is that unless you control what the user has for a web browser, it may not work. Many web browsers won't use Adobe Reader (one of them being very popular) to view the file and may not process that correctly if at all.

Hopefully someone has some better advice but I don't necessarily see this working unless you control the environment.

Report · Jul 26, 2017

I think we could possibly control the environment in the sense that we'd tell the clients that if they want to use the signature functionality, they'd have to set the default app to Reader instead of the browser.

Since I'm only familiar with Windows, I'm not sure this would work on other operating systems.

Thanks for the info and still hoping there's a way!

Report · Jul 26, 2017

You could probably do this with Adobe Sign if you had a high enough level of service. But you do not want a cloud service. There are two factors you are dealing with here cheap and easy. Generally, these are incompatible. The easiest solution without email and downloading files is a cloud solution which is not cheap.

Report · Jul 26, 2017

Hey Michael,

Money isn't really an issue. I'm not looking at cheap or easy (at least for the company, only easy for the user).

I simply stated what I'd like as a workflow, and again, I'm hoping Adobe has tools that will accommodate this particular flow (or something close to the workflow I described).

If Adobe's only solution is cloud, that's fine, just looking for the final answer on that point.

Thanks for the input!