Document Signing

[BangkokBob]

I raised this issue a long time ago (V4?) and said that I felt two additions would be very welcome:
1 an option for a "save to directory" when signing documents; and
2 The ability to separate date and time in the signature's displayed fields. As time is obviously inherent in date, I don't want to display this as it takes up unnecessary space.

The reasons for the above are that I sign a lot of PDF documents. As in other businesses, other people prepare documents and store them in a directory, I sign them and save them to a finished directory. Whilst the last saved location will be prompted, it is often not the location which is required. Time wasting locating the correct folder! A default location for signed documents would solve this problem. Other signing software I used in the past deleted the unsigned file, which also was useful, however I've programmed a utility to compare unsigned and signed directories and deletes the unsigned document when it finds the same document in signed.

I thought that the "Add a Place" under File Open was going to help, but I am unable to"Add" any location. What is this for? How does it work? Help doesn't seem to help.
I like V7 although opening is much slower with the ribbon. Hope that gets fixed.

[Tracker Supp-Stefan]

Hello BangkokBob,

Thanks for your post and feedback. For the moment the "Add a place" feature requires you to also select a file in the location you want to remember. We did it that way so you can directly add a place and select a file in it, but realize now that it is not as intuitive as we thought it would be. So please do select a file in the location you want to add - and it will be added. From there on - you can use it properly as a custom location.

As for the separation of date and time - I am not sure this is allowed by the specification, but if it is - I will make FR to the guys in the dev team so that they can consider it!

Regards,
Stefan

[BangkokBob]

What is displayed on a signature is only that, the full details don't have to be displayed, and even now we can turn parts on and off. We just can't separate date and time.

Thanks

[Tracker Supp-Stefan]

Hello BangkokBob,

Yes - you can decide to have the whole date and time displayed or not, but not separately.
I will have this discussed internally, but please note that we might still not be able/allowed to change this due to specification restrictions.

Regards,
Stefan

[PhilR]

I've tried the 'add a place' as mentioned above and it does work. However it ties you to the actual 'end directory' in which the selected file exists.

I believe that it would be more useful if it were also possible to link to a selected directory without opening a file within it. This would allow, for instance, allow a user's top-level directory on a server to be selected, rather than lower level-directories.

Phil

[Tracker Supp-Stefan]

Hi Phil,

This is a limitation in the current implementation, and we are considering making it possible to select a directory without having a file in it.

Regards,
Stefan