Do you offer special pricing for resellers?
Yes, contact sales
RainbowPDF
com for additional information.
Do you offer GSA Pricing?
Yes. GSA pricing of Antenna House Rainbow PDF Products is handled through our partner ComponentSource contact: salescomponentsourcecom Please include “GSA Pricing Rainbow PDF” your subject line. A ComponentSource Representative will contact you.
Do you offer multiple License discounts? What is the minimum number to receive multiple License discounts?
Antenna House offers volume licensing agreements to enable corporate, government, and academic organizations to receive significant discounts by purchasing Rainbow PDF software licenses in quantity. You need to apply for at least 5 licenses to qualify for this program. For more information, email our Sales Team at salesRainbowPDFcom.
- How do I place an order for Rainbow PDF Desktop Products?
- What languages does Rainbow PDF Desktop Converter support?
- Do I have to pay for tech support and upgrades?
- What is the evaluation period for your desktop software?
- Can you ship me Rainbow PDF Desktop Products on a CD?
- Who can use Rainbow PDF Desktop Products?
- Are application program interfaces available for your desktop products?
How do I place an order for Rainbow PDF Desktop Products?
Please complete the purchase form. Within 2 business days Antenna House will send a license key to you via secure email with instructions for installation. The license key will remove the watermark, time constraints and enable the full version of the software.
To download an evaluation copy, go to download the trial version of the software.
What languages does Rainbow PDF Desktop Converter support?
Rainbow PDF completely supports the conversion of English and Japanese characters, including Japanese Kanji, Katakana and Hiragana.
Do I have to pay for tech support and upgrades?
Rainbow PDF Products comes with a 90 day warranty during which time you will receive free upgrades and limited free email technical support. Direct your questions to supportRainbowPDFcom.
What is the evaluation period for your desktop software?
We offer a generous 10 day, trial for your evaluation.
Can you ship me Rainbow PDF Desktop Products on a CD?
Yes, however, it requires an additional shipping charge. For more information on shipping please contact us at salesRainbowPDFcom.
Who can use Rainbow PDF Desktop Products?
- Accountants, financial analysts, auditors, and marketing managers will benefit from changing existing PDF information into programs that will calculate statistics for clients and colleagues.
- Sales people, sales managers and consultants will be able to incorporate re-purpose documents and articles for use in proposals and quotations.
- Students, researchers, consultants and writers who publish reports, write papers will benefit by converting portions of other documents for reuse in their finished documents.
Are application program interfaces available for your desktop products?
Since desktop products are not designed for high volume usage, Antenna House chooses to support only their intended application on a single desktop.
- What is the conversion speed of Rainbow PDF Server Based Converter?
- Does Rainbow PDF Server Based Converter support Open Office?
- Can Rainbow PDF Server Based Converter add a Watermark to my PDF?
- How do I place an order for Rainbow PDF Server Based Converter?
- Do you provide programming samples?
What is the conversion speed of Rainbow PDF Server Based Converter?
Exact rates are difficult to predict. It depends on the complexity of the document. Additionally, the type of environment in which our software operates can greatly affect conversion speeds. That being said ….the time it takes to convert a page is generally less than I second.
However, we always recommend evaluating our software using your own documents, in your own environment to accurately predict conversion times.
Does Rainbow PDF Server Based Converter support Open Office?
Open Office is something we are considering for a future release, but at this point Antenna House has not committed to support Open Office with our products.
Can Rainbow PDF Server Based Converter add a Watermark to my PDF?
The Rainbow PDF Server Based Converter program does not have a feature to add watermarks. We have two other products that can accomplish this task in a Windows environment.
Our Rainbow PDF Digital Signature can apply a visible signature, which can have a user-defined appearance, to the document. This signature can in fact act like a watermark, and can be applied in a batch operation.
If you only occasionally need to add a watermark and therefore output speed and capacity are not critical here is a very inexpensive alternative. Rainbow PDF Server Based Converter allows the converted files to be outputted directly to a printer instead of to a file and our $20 Rainbow PDF Print Driver supports a watermark feature.
By installing our Rainbow PDF Print Driver and configuring it with the watermark you wish to display you can have our server side converter output to the printer device created by the print driver which, in turn, will output PDF files with the watermark.
How do I place an order for Rainbow PDF Server Based Converter?
Please complete the purchase form. Within 2 business days Antenna House will send the license serial numbers to you by email.
If you have already downloaded the evaluation/trial version, launch the program then enter your serial number in the space provided. Entering the serial number will remove watermarks, time constraints and enable the full version of the software.
To download an evaluation copy, go to download the trial version of the software.
Do you provide programming samples?
Yes. In the Windows, Linux, and Solaris versions samples can be found in the program directories. Windows users: “C:\Program Files\Antenna\ServerBasedConverterV2\samples\”
In the Windows Program the following chart shows the location of helpful information.
Documents
EULA.txt License Agreement text
ReadMe.txt Read me text
docs/* Online Manual
docs/javadoc/* Java Interface manual
In Linux and Solaris Programs the following chart shows the location of helpful information.
Documents and Samples
EULA.txt License Agreement text
ReadMe.txt Read me text
docs/* Online Manual
docs/javadoc/* Java Interface manual
run.sh Sample shell script for running command line interface
samples/* Samples
- What is a Digital Signature?
- What kind of cryptology does Rainbow PDF Digital Signature use?
- What is the difference between an electronic signature and a digital signature?
- What is the difference between a self signed signature and a digital signature issued by a certificate authority?
- What is a Certificate Authority?
- What is the difference between a Root Certificate Authority and a Certificate Authority?
- How do I sign PDF’s in a batch mode?
- What is the windows certificate store?
- How do I know if a document has been digitally signed?
- When working directly with a PFX file, how do I get Rainbow PDF Digital Signature to open the file?
A Digital Signature is in simple terms a mathematical calculation that gives a numerical value to the document that is signed. Then that value is encrypted using a cryptographic key.
What kind of cryptology does Rainbow PDF Digital Signature use?
Digital Signature uses Asymmetric cryptology. In brief, there are two kinds of keys assigned to documents, a public key and a private key.
You can give your public key to anyone. It’s like your address. If someone sends you a document they can encrypt it using your public key and know that only you will be able to read it.
* If you sign a document using your private key, then people who have your public key can check to see that the document is indeed from you.
* If you send a document using the intended receiver’s public key (address) then only that receiver using his associated private key can decrypt the document.
What is the difference between an electronic signature and a digital signature?
An electronic signature may be just an image of a written signature. A Digital Signature has a unique digital value associated with it that matches the signors identity.
A self signed certificate does not have a trusted third party that vouches for the identity of the signor.
What is a Certificate Authority?
Certificate Authority is a trusted source and keeper of digital signature information. This entity is required to meet specialized criteria and report to a Root Authority which certifies the technologies, infrastructure and practices of the Certificate Authority. Certificate Authorities, in order to be licensed to issue Digital Signature Certificates, must meet standards for authority integrity and confidentiality. It is the certificated authority that binds the physical identity of a person (or a corporation) to a public key.
* Individuals requesting a public key are required to present various forms of proof of identity ranging from an e-mail address for low security, to in-person interviews with proof of ID for high security needs.
* Certificate Authorities also are required to revoke certificates.
If an electronic signature has a certification attached to it then the person owning the signature has gone through a process of proving their identity and has obtained a certificate to associate with their signature. When you receive a PDF with a certified digital signature, you can check the status of the signature by selecting the pen icon on the left side of your Adobe Reader screen to receive a signature status message.
* Valid – Validates that this PDF did indeed come from the person with that Digital Signature. He is who he says he is, and his signature is current and registered with the certificate authority.
* Unable to Validate – Signature Certification has expired or is not registered (unregistered signatures are called self-signed signatures).
* Invalid – Sends a message with the document that the digital signature is and has been rescinded because unauthorized use or because a person is no longer with the company.
Examples of Certificate Authorities are VeriSign and Global Sign.
What is the difference between a Root Certificate Authority and a Certificate Authority?
Multiple Certificate Authorities are authorized by the root authorities to distribute certificates (and verify identities) across broad geographic areas.
How do I sign PDF’s in a batch mode?
Because Rainbow PDF Digital Signature is designed as a PDF filter, to extend the function of an existing application, a loop command similar to:
for %i in (*.pdf) do pdscmd -sign -addnew -sf Field1 -in %i -out %~ni-signed.pdf
is used to perform batched signings.
What is the windows certificate store?
The windows certificate store is a Microsoft software program for accessing other people’s public keys and your private signing key. Easy directions for access and use are located on this website in the “Understanding Digital Signature” link located on the left sidebar under PDF Digital Signature.
How do I know if a document has been digitally signed?
Sometimes there is no physical evidence of a digital signature on a document. By using your Adobe Reader [view] [Navigation Panels] [Signatures] you can display information on the digital signature.
When working directly with a PFX file, how do I get Rainbow PDF Digital Signature to open the file?
When you use a PFX file you need to specify the password on the command-line with ‘-p12-file ‘ or you will get an error message that it could not open the file.
Example of specifying a PFX file for a signature:
C:\temp\Hanako.PFX (password: hanako) is specified as the signing certificate.
PdsCmd -sign -addnew Field1
-sf Field1 1 209 600 309 700
-p12-file hanako C:\temp\Hanako.PFX
-in PDF-Version17.pdf -out examPFX.pdf
