Signature Placement for PDF Documents
A Signature Information Annotation contains basic audit information about a signature. It is available for PDF formatted documents only. It is implemented as a PDF text note annotation embedded next to a signature within a signed PDF document. An example:
The signature information annotation is indicated as a green "text note" annotation. Hovering over the text note (with recent versions of Adobe Acrobat/Reader) will show the contents. Clicking on the text note will open it and display the contents:
This feature has limited support in most browsers and PDF reader software not made by Adobe.
To enable signature information annotations in a particular document, you must set the Document's EnableSignatureInformationAnnotation
property to true
.
document = new DocumentInsertModel()
{
Title = "My Test Document",
EnableSignatureInformationAnnotation = true,
Source = new SourceModel()
{
FilePath = @"c:\myDocument.pdf"
},
Tasks = new List<object>
{
new TaskInsertModel() {}
}
}
Signature Placement for PDF Documents
Normally when the PDF is displayed for signature to the signer, the document is opened to the page where the signature is to be inserted. This makes it easier for the signer to locate the Click Here to Sign link. If you specify a page number value in the Signature Block's PdfOpenPromptPageNumber property, the PDF will open to the page specified instead of the signature page (for example - at the top of page 1). If you specify the same page as the page with the signature, it will open at the top of that page instead of the exact signature location.
Signature Placement for HTML Documents
AlphaTrust® e-Sign inserts visible signature blocks during the signing process. By default these signature blocks are inserted just above the </body> element so that they appear at the end of a document. Additional signature blocks, when more than one person will sign a document, are added below the preceding signature block.