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Acrobat X Customization and SignatureLogo.pdf

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January 23, 2012
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Tried following the Customization tool help file to create a SignatureLogo.pdf file to include with the distribution of Acrobat Pro X using the Files and Folders section of the customization tool.

Obviously I either misread or misunderstood the process for getting this to work.

Can somebody provide a step by step of how to include your own company's signature logo file in a setup disk distribution using the customization wizard?

Thanks,

WA

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charis_dancer

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This sounds very similar to what my organization is trying to do. My present role involves redesigning a large number of our internal paper forms in LiveCycle Designer ES2. My question concerns the appearance of digital signatures. Bear in mind that I am a new user and much of what you describe is unfamiliar to me at this point.

In several examples I’ve seen of digital signatures, the stylized Adobe “triangle” appears as a watermark. My organization would like employees’ digital signatures to feature our company logo as the watermark.

How can this be accomplished, and are there any limitations on:

- opacity
- image type (vector versus raster)
- filesize
- maximum image dimensions
- colour space (CMYK versus RGB)

If one of you can direct me to some easy to understand (read: newbie friendly) step-by-step, how-to documentation that explains how we can accomplish this, I would greatly appreciate it.

Thank you.

EnterpriseHelp

Inspiring

Steve and Sabian describe the correct method above. See also http://www.adobe.com/devnet-docs/acrobatetk/tools/DigSig/appearances.html#changing-the-watermark.

There are no restrictions. The watermark is simply an image converted to PDF.

hth,

Ben

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charis_dancer

Participating Frequently

Hi, Ben.

Many thanks for your reply.

Can you tell me whether SignatureLogo.pdf must forcibly reside on each user's/employee's computer or whether it is possible to store it in a readily accessible location on a shared network drive/intranet? I ask because, as a large organization in the midst of a rebranding initiative, our visual identity is incredibly important to us, and we'd like to ensure, wherever possible, consistency of, and control over, our corporate brand. (Geesh, that's a lot of commas!)

Thanks again.

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Anonymous

While SignatureLogo.pdf "should" work if it's not then you are doing this for the entire deployment because you want everyone to have the company logo on their digital signature? Just use the following file instead:

Appearances.acrodata: Stores signature appearances. Unless there is a shared company appearance, do not use this file.

It goes in the same place as the one that Steven pointed out on Windows 7.

C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Acrobat\<ver>\Security (for Vista\Win 7

You will need to create it on a test system first and then deploy it in your cusomized installation package.

It can actually hold more than one appearance too.

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Joel Geraci

Community Expert

Can you elaborate on exactly what it is you're trying to do? It sounds like you want to distribute a digital certificate with an appearance. Is that correct?

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Anonymous

Thanks for the reply Joel...

I'm putting together a binary distribution of Acrobat X Pro.

I have done this many times before (versions 6, 7, 8, 9) as we have upgraded over the years.

I watched the videos about using the customization tool and wanted to insert the custom SignatureLogo.pdf that our organization uses (replaces the Adobe logo behind your digital signature).

I created the SignatureLogo.pdf and have been using that on my own system for over a year. I just wanted to include that customized digital signature logo in the distribution so it would be the default for all of our employees.

In the customization tool help file, under "Files and Folders" at the bottom of the page I found this text;

"3. Copy other needed files to a custom or existing directory. For example, expand the Destination Computer directory ProgramFileFolder\Adobe\Acrobat <application version>\Acrobat\ and create a new folder called Security. Some common files that may be distributed this way include:

l SignatureLogo.pdf: To create a watermark or logo on each employee signature, create the logo and manually copy the file to the Documents and Settings Directory under their username.

l PKCS#11 drivers: If you use smart cards, you can distribute drivers that end users can import via the Security Settings Console.

l Custom security handlers: If you have developed a custom handler for signing or document security, install it in the application’s plugin directory.

Note: The tuned installer will copy these files to the matching location."

So I was under the impression that if I created the "Security" folder as described above and then dragged my SignatureLogo.pdf file into that folder in the "Files and Folders" section of the customization tool structure that the customized signature logo file would get installed on any system that we ran the setup on.

This did not happen. So I'm doing something wrong.

Any help you can be will be appreciated.

Thanks,

WA

Joel Geraci

Community Expert

Ok got it. In addition to putting the files in the right place, you'll also need to add the corresponding registry entries for the distributed copy of Acrobat to know to use the files. The easiest way to do that would be to search the registry for the filename of your PDF and then use the registry editor in the CW to replicate that.

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