Adobe is continuing to focus on e-signature workflow automation and a new security feature for automatically applying electronic seals to PDFs to ensure document integrity and authenticity. Read on for the latest Adobe Document Cloud for Enterprise releases, features, news, tips and tricks.
Adobe Acrobat Sign
New: Custom workflows available to all users
Acrobat Sign supports building workflow templates with predefined signing processes to fit your specific business requirements. Previously, only Adobe Acrobat Sign administrators were able to create custom workflows. Now, non-administrators can set custom sign workflows for personal use. This new feature streamlines the signature sending experience by enabling automation of repeated send processes and it will eliminate dependency on administrators.
Administrators have control to enable or disable users from access to this feature in the Admin Settings.
Availability:
Available for Acrobat Sign customers.
NEW: Named Recipient Groups
A customer can now save a recipient group containing a set of recipients to their address book that can be reused on the custom workflow designer page. Account or Group Administrators can create/edit/delete recipient groups.
Senders can add contact groups quickly and easily without typing in individual recipients, which increases accuracy and lessens chances for errors.
NEW: Transaction Consumption Reporting
This new report type provides Administrators with the visibility and transparency they would need to better understand transaction consumption patterns for their organisation. Admins can now create dedicated reports to track consumption with four distinct charts: transaction volume trend, transaction by sender, transaction by group, and transaction by workflow.
NEW: Settings Change Report
This new report gives administrators visibility into administration activity by providing audit reports that log all settings changes. This provides transparency into all administrative activity and allows organisations to monitor changes more easily.
Adobe Acrobat Services
NEW: Adobe PDF Electronic Seal API
With the increase of cyber fraud, ensuring business document integrity and authenticity is as critical as ever. Electronic sealing a PDF with a third-party certified stamp is one way to provide assurance that the PDF was authored by an organisation and it has not been tampered with.
Adobe PDF Electronic Seal API, which was available as a public beta and is now generally available, enables organisations to apply electronic seals on PDFs at scale to demonstrate the integrity and authenticity of PDFs. The PDF Electronic Seal visual is configurable and can include an image and a text block comprising the name of the organisation, date, and time of the seal. The ribbon on the top status bar is the tamper certifying indicator.
Additionally, PDF Electronic Seal API supports timestamping authorities in the sealing process that can add a cryptographic timestamp to further ensure the integrity and validity of the document. Adobe has also added the ability to apply document-level permissions when sealing PDFs. Finally, they have added a way for you to test this new feature using our PDF Electronic Seal Playground.
Availability:
Available for Adobe Acrobat Services customers.
More Information:
Adobe PDF Electronic Seal API overview
UPDATED: Enhanced External File support
Designed to work with your existing infrastructure, Adobe Acrobat Services APIs enable secure and flexible document automation. Adobe recently announced that Adobe Document Generation API has added support for accessing files from the external storage of the client directly from Amazon S3 and Microsoft SharePoint. The client can invoke the PDF Services API with Signed URLs and files will be automatically accessed from their storage.
Now, developers can make use of these storage systems in all parts of Adobe’s APIs, except for PDF Extract API, PDF Accessibility Auto-Tag, and Split PDF actions.
Additionally, developers can now use files stored on Dropbox and Azure Blobs. This is currently available via the REST APIs only.
Availability:
Available for Adobe Acrobat Services customers.
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