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Dropbox Sign: Rotating signature boxes
Uploading a PDF with both landscape and portrait images, and using Dropbox Sign….When I am configuring "Signature Boxes", “Date/Initial" boxes etc in Dropbox Sign, it seems that i cannot rotate the s...
Hey all, I'm the engineering lead for the involved team.
I'm really sorry about the frustration this has caused. It really is a bit of a tricky problem for us to solve on or end — PDFs are hard! — but we have been working on it, and I understand how critical a timely fix would have been for many of you.
My team was able to reproduce the issues noted in this thread by a few PDFs provided to us by our Support team that displayed the errant behavior. We used these to help validate our work and now, using these files, we see fields oriented as expected.
A couple of weeks ago, we released a patch which should reconcile the conflict between field rotation and PDF orientation.
Fields should now be oriented relative to the top of the file viewer, and not based on the underlying PDF encoding. If you rotate a document in the viewer, any fields you've added will be cleared so that field orientation will be correct to the new orientation. You'll get a warning before this happens, so you can go cancel the action if you need to.
If you are still seeing fields oriented the wrong way, could you please share a sample PDF with our Support team (dropbox.com/support) so that we can take another look and make sure we didn't miss an edge case? Just make sure the file doesn't contain any private or sensitive information.
Rest assured, my team does really care, but like with many companies we have a number of other priorities we need to juggle as well, and we're all doing our best.
Hannah
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffThanks for your contribution, everyone.
Our team is still working on a solution for this, but there are no updates as of yet.
Once we have more info, we will share it with everyone here.
Thanks.
This issue is still ongoing,a nd it looks the the 'team' have been looking into it for quite a while now.
It used to work fine, and now its crap, no way can I send for signatures sideways. I've just convinced a client to subscribe to dropbox for this very reason.
Extremely embarrasing
I found the same problem, but only with SOME of the landscape pages. So I went with the flow and changed my labels on those pages so they would also be vertical and it would look presentable. It all looked good.
I was signing the document first (but not as a self-signer). After I had done this, my initials on those landscape pages with the rotation issue weren't where I had placed them, but half way across the page! Completely unacceptable so I had to scramble and Cancel the entire document to withdraw it from the signing process with our clients. Also very embarrassing - plus I still need to work out HOW to send this contract so it works.
This issue needs prioritising to be fixed.
