Secure Markups and Dynamic Stamps

[ad64]

We would like to use DWF viewer for approving drawings:

- Is there a way to create securely markup a drawing (stamp, symbol) so that the markup cannot be changed by someone else later?

- Does ADR support dynamic content in symbols / markup (e.g. an approved stamp which automatically puts in today's date or offers a form to input the date)?

Steve

[susan.scott]

(these comments pertain to Design Review 2011 and above)

re: securing a markup - there are 2 ways this can be accomplished:

1. all new markups are automatically locked when you create & save the file.  The next person to open the file will see them as LOCKED.  Of course, its easy for them to UNLOCK them by right-clicking on them and toggling the lock field.  This feature was implemented to prevent accidental changes to markups.
2. a second way to secure your file is to apply a Digital Signature to the file.  Please open this Design Review HELP topic for all the details: "Add a Digital Signature to a DWFx File".

re: dynamic content - at this time, we do not support dynamic content in symbols or stamps.

-Sue

[Anonymous]

Is there any plans to incorporate dynamic stamps soon? Can it be done throught the API? My company also uses it for comments and it would be great to place a stamp and insert a number that shows up with the stamp. Currently we place a stamp and then place text next to the stamp indicating the comment number. The Java language PDF uses makes a nice dynamic stamp with dialog boxes to fill in the stamp but we would prefer to use DR.

[lundbea]

There is no way to do this currently, and we have this logged as a feature request that we are tracking for a future release.  Thanks for the question.