Reg: digital signature creation

Hi,
i have created interactive form and in that placed a signature element. when i test the apllication, it displays a pdf that i wanted to sign using a digital signature. when i click signature element it displays a popup with signautres.
my question is where should i create signatures and how could i do that.
please do the needful
thanks
vinod

I would have to see all of the code to have a better idea what the problem is. My guess though is that you are not adding the SignatureProperties in the right location in the XMLSignature or you are not specifying the xmldsig namespace when you create the elements and the implementation throws an exception because of that. You may want to use the XMLObject and SignatureProperies API instead to add the properties. Also, I did notice in the code that you are using an object named signatureDocument to add the signature properties but then an object named signatureDoc to unmarshal the signature. I wonder if this is a typo or what is the difference between these objects?

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