Digital signature in a PDF document

Hello,
   I'm trying to make a BSP that signs a pdf document. I've seen the BSP SSFDEMODIGSIG but It only makes a encoded file with the PDF and the sign. What I need is to create a PDF document digitally signed. Is it possible to do it?. Thanks for your help

/people/sap.user72/blog/2004/11/10/bsphowto-generate-pdf-output-from-a-bsp
That's the weblog where we all got together and came up with the solutions to create dynamic PDF files.
Perhaps that will help you out.

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