SignDoc SDK API Documentation (Java)

Overview

SignDoc SDK enables the creation of applications which handle SignDoc documents, that is, rendering as images, signing, and verifying PDF and TIFF documents.

Main Classes

The main classes of the Java API of SignDoc SDK are: de.softpro.doc.SignDocDocument and de.softpro.doc.SignDocDocumentLoader.

Files

SignDoc SDK contains these directories:

Win64

Executables, DLLs, and libraries for 64-bit Windows

WinRT_X64

DLLs and libraries for X64 (64-bit) Windows Store apps.

android-armv7a

libraries for Android (armeabi v7a)

android-arm64v8a

libraries for Android (arm64 v8a)

darwin-x86_64

libraries for OS X

linux-x86_64

Executables and libraries for 64-bit x86 Linux

doc/c

Documentation for the C API

doc/c++

Documentation for the C++ API

doc/java

Documentation for the Java API

Important files include:

License*.txt

Licenses for third party libraries

SPSignDoc_5.0.jar

SignDoc Java API

linux-ARCH/libSPFreeImage_1.so

shared library containing an adaption of FreeImage

linux-ARCH/libSPSignDoc_5.0.so

shared library containing the SignDoc SDK core

linux-ARCH/libSPTiff_40.so

shared library containing an adaption of libtiff

linux-ARCH/SignDocInit

Initialize SignPad from /etc/init.d or udev

linux-ARCH/udev-signpad-*.rules

udev rules for SignPad

Win.../SPSignDocQt.dll

DLL containing SignDoc SDK code depending on SPQt

Win.../SPSignDoc_5.0.dll

DLL containing the SignDoc SDK core

Win.../SP9_QtCore4.dll

DLL containing an adaption of QtCore4.dll

Win.../SP9_QtGui4.dll

DLL containing an adaption of QtGui4.dll

Win.../SPFreeImage_1.dll

DLL containing an adaption of FreeImage

Win.../SPTiff_40.dll

DLL containing an adaption of libtiff

Windows

To be able to use SPSignDoc_5.0.dll, you have to install this Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable Package:

• https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=746572 (Visual Studio 2017)

Android

To build an Android app, copy

• SPSignDoc_5.0.jar to libs/
• android-armv7a/lib*.so to libs/armeabi-v7a/
• android-arm64v8a/lib*.so to libs/arm64-v8a/

of your project.

Before calling SignDocDocumentLoader.setLicenseKey(), you may want to enable logging to a file by calling SignDocDocumentLoader.initLogging(). If you do that you are responsible for trimming the log file from time to time.