The first time the digitally-signed Java applet-based edit-on Pro is loaded you will be asked if you "trust" the software, thus ensuring that the editor applet is from RealObjects and free of any malicious code.

Accepting the certificate grants edit-on Pro certain rights on your machine, e.g. inserting images from you local hard drive. After confirming this security check with the "Always"-button, your browser will store the applet's certificate on your machine and will not prompt for the security message again. Please keep in mind, the prompted message is displayed through the browser's standard security dialog. It is not an error message!

When the edit-on Pro certificate has expired a message is displayed in the browser's security dialog, asking the user to again grant certain rights to the editor applet.

Actually, this does not mean that the digital signature for the edit-on Pro applet is not valid anymore. It only means that the certificate can not be used anymore to digitally sign the applet. The expiration of the certificate does not affect the functionality of the editor in any way.

However, in order to avoid that the security dialog shows the expiration of the applet's certificate, we recommend to work with the latest update of your edit-on Pro version, which is always signed with a valid certificate.

You can download the latest version from our download area.