Getting Started

This guide describes configuration and deployment of the Acrobat family of products for use with digital signatures. It’s goal is to help enterprise professionals set up and deploy secure signature workflows. The target audience includes:

• Administrators who configure and deploy applications across their enterprise.

• Developers who need registry level detail to augment SDK information about creating custom plug-ins and handlers that use Acrobat’s security features.

• Workflow owners who need advanced knowledge of signature workflows.

Note

This document does not contain end user “how to use the feature” Help.

Table of contents

• Pre-deployment Configuration
  • Recommendations
  • Deployment checklist
  • PKI trust
  • Directory server connections
  • Signing environment
  • Timestamp servers
  • Signature validation
  • Certificate revocation checks
• Security Setting Import-Export
  • Export to a file
  • Import from a file
  • Manual server import setup
  • Registry and plist configuration
• Custom Signature Appearances
  • Settings file locations
  • Customizing an Appearance
  • Changing the watermark
  • Using handwritten signatures
  • PDF/A compliance
• Custom Certificate Preferences
  • Identifying Certificates
  • Creating an addressbook.acrodata file
  • Adding Certificate Preferences
  • Setting chain scope
  • Example: Identrus Compliance
• Wizard Deployment Example
  • General Method
  • Configure the Product UI
  • Tweak the Registry
  • Configure the New Installer
  • Preserving end user settings
• Signature validation quick key
• OIDs and Certificates
  • What is an OID?
  • Adobe Qualified Trust Services
  • Other Adobe OIDs
  • Security OIDs
  • Certificate Practice Statement OIDs
  • Ubiquity OIDs
  • X.509 Extension OIDs
  • User Interface Configuration
  • Non-Explicit OID Processing
• Supported Standards
  • Signature algorithms
  • Standards
  • APIs and miscellaneous
  • FIPS support
• Glossary