Working With Adobe PDF Documents

This section describes how to use certificates stored in CA Auth ID to sign Adobe PDF documents. Before using CA Auth ID to digitally sign PDF documents, users need to configure the Arcot PKCS#11 module with Adobe Reader or Adobe Acrobat, as discussed in this section. See the following topics for more information:
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This section describes how to use certificates stored in CA Auth ID to sign Adobe PDF documents. Before using CA Auth ID to digitally sign PDF documents, users need to configure the Arcot PKCS#11 module with Adobe Reader or Adobe Acrobat, as discussed in this section. See the following topics for more information:
Integrating with Adobe Reader 8.0
Users must perform the following steps to integrate Arcot PKCS#11 with Adobe Reader 8.0:
The following steps are applicable to Adobe Reader 8.0
only.
Refer to vendor documentation for information on how to perform these tasks using other versions.
  1. Open Adobe Reader.
  2. Click the 
    Document
     menu and choose 
    Security Settings
    .
    The 
    Security Settings
     page appears.
  3. Expand the 
    Digital IDs
     menu and select 
    PKCS#11 Modules and Tokens
    .
  4. In the upper-right pane, click 
    Attach Module
    .
    The 
    Locate a PKCS#11 Module
     dialog appears.
  5. Browse to the \Windows\System32 directory. Select the ArcotPK11.dll file and click the 
    Open
     button.
    The Arcot PKCS#11 module appears in the list of modules in the upper-right pane. The 
    Module Manufacturer ID
     must have an entry 
    Arcot Systems, Inc.
    , which ensures that the module has been successfully installed.
Integrating with Adobe Acrobat 8.0
Users must perform the following steps to integrate Arcot PKCS#11 with Adobe Acrobat 8.0:
The following steps are applicable to Adobe Acrobat 8.0
only.
Refer to vendor documentation for information on how to perform these steps using other versions.
  1. Open Adobe Acrobat.
  2. Click the 
    Advanced
     menu and choose 
    Security Settings
    .
    The 
    Security Settings
     page is displayed.
  3. Expand the 
    Digital IDs
     menu and select 
    PKCS#11 Modules and Tokens
    .
  4. In the upper-right pane, click 
    Attach Module
    .
    The 
    Locate a PKCS#11 Module
     dialog appears.
  5. Browse to the \Windows\
    System32
     directory. Select the file ArcotPK11.dll and click the 
    Open
     button.
  6. The Arcot PKCS#11 module appears in the list of modules in the upper-right pane. The 
    Module Manufacturer ID
     must have an entry 
    Arcot Systems, Inc.
    , which ensures that the module has been successfully installed.