Re: Digital Signage issues

Hi Everyone,
I have recently created some PDF documents from MSword templates in Acrobat XI Pro . I have included signature fields as part of these documents.
These signature fields seem to work perfectly fine in Acrobat XI Pro, but when I save them an open them again in Reader XI the properties of the document show signatures as being 'Not allowed' even though when I created and saved the document the properties state that signatures are allowed.
My current assumption is that there is something I have done wrong in the saving process or perhaps something I have not done when opening them again in Reader XI.
I'm sure this will be an incredibly simply issue for you guys to resolve - it is just simply out of my area of expertise.
If you need any further information to answer this question please let me know and I will endeavour to procure the answers for you.
Thanks very much for your time.
Regards,
Malcolm

I'll attempt to place it into one of my desktop computers and see if it recognizes it.
EDIT: It was recognized as "WindowsSupport" under the desktop, running Windows XP.
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When I create a so called Box and link a RSS Ticker to that box, I cannot change the font size. The text is to big, and only one line at a time appears. Is it possible to change the font size (and type), and to show a whole a whole item of the subscribed feed in stead of word by word (yes, if the box is not full screen, sometimes only one word at a time is visible...)?
For your info: I'm using DMM version 1.1
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Truthfully this was the first iteration of the DMD so its still very clunky in its first release. In late June the 5.0 version is due to be released. I understand that there is going to be a much needed re-design of the DMM GUI and the DMD will also see some improvements. Hopefully this issue will be addressed.
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