Thanks Michael, I'll get right on it. *Jose*
2014-10-24 15:18 GMT+02:00 mkl <m...@wir-sind-cool.org>: > Jose, > > Jose Mª Viota wrote > > Both of Adobe Reader and Adobe Pro verifies the conformance but iText > says > > me that "Annotation of type /Widget should have Contents key" > > First of all the message says SHOULD. If the wording is RFC'ish, this means > that this merely refers to a recommendation of the PDF/A specification, not > a requirement, so there may *exist valid reasons in particular > circumstances > to ignore* it. > > Third-party conformance checkers do not know whether in such a case valid > reasons existed. They, therefore, may not fail verification if merely a > recommendation is not heeded. > > PDF generators may be stricter in this respect and enforce recommendations. > > In the case at hand we are talking about the recommendation to include a > Contents entry in an Annot dictionary "for Level A conformance of > non-textual annotations": > > > For annotation types that do not display text, the Contents key of an > > annotation dictionary should be specified with an alternative description > > of the annotation's contents in human-readable form. > > In the PDF at hand the annotation is a signature field widget annotation, > and a digital signature not necessarily displays text. Thus, one can indeed > argue that this recommendation should be heeded. > > That all been said, it is somewhat funny that iText itself (in > PdfSignatureAppearance.preClose) creates this annotation it finds > lacking... > it does not live up to its own requirements. ;) > > To get around this you might want to try a two-pass approach; in the first > pass you create an empty signature field which you enhance with a Contents > annotation and then add to the document, and in the second pass you sign > using this empty signature field. > > Regards, Michael > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://itext-general.2136553.n4.nabble.com/Java-iText-Error-while-check-pdf-PDF-A-1A-tp4660479p4660494.html > Sent from the iText - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > iText-questions mailing list > iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions > > iText(R) is a registered trademark of 1T3XT BVBA. > Many questions posted to this list can (and will) be answered with a > reference to the iText book: http://www.itextpdf.com/book/ > Please check the keywords list before you ask for examples: > http://itextpdf.com/themes/keywords.php >
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