Android PDF Library support for PDF, PDF forms, annotations, digital signatures ...

Q:

  • how extensive is the PDF rendering support in your Android PDF Library - are all common PDF objects and formatting, layouts supported and two what extend ?

  • when rendering a PDF digitally Signed document, PDFNet seem to invalidate the digital signature (in certificate is invalid). Could the Watermark for the Demo version be the problem? Is there a way to verify, if this is the case, since for us the PDF Digital signature is important workflow and also criteria to use the library for it.

  • Are PDF security features (like encryptions) available for the mobile Package?

  • Are PDF Forms features supported in the mobile version?

  • Are Digital Certificate features available in PDFNet ?


A:

To answer your questions:

how extensive is the PDF rendering support - are all common PDF objects and formatting, layouts supported

We support all revisions of the PDF standard ensuring that the library will work with different documents you come across. We are also able to work with corrupted PDF documents and correct the problems in saved files. For details, please see our features page: http://www.pdftron.com/pdfnet/features.html

when rendering a PDF digitally Signed document, PDFNet seem to invalidate the digital signature (in certificate is

invalid). Could the Watermark for the Demo version be the problem? Is there a way to verify, if this is the case,

since for us the PDF Digital signature is important workflow and also criteria to use the library for it.

If a PDF is altered, then it should invalidate the signature, so re-saving the PDF with a watermark will invalidate the signature. Opening the document does not alter the original file, so this process should not invalidate the file on disk.

Are PDF security features (like encryptions) available for the mobile Package?

Yes, we have extensive support for PDF security features. Please see the “security” section of our features page here: http://www.pdftron.com/pdfnet/features.html

Are PDF Forms features supported in the mobile version?

Yes, forms are supported in the mobile version. If you run the included sample app, you will see that you can fill forms and save them to disk.

Are Digital Certificate features available in PDFNet ?

We do have support for digital signatures, for details please see this forum post: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/pdfnet-sdk/MpFWVjFusJ0