Original Author of PDF's needs Password they didn't set to combine

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March 9, 2022
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I am the creator and author of the pdf's I send out to sign. When they come back they are password protected with a password I didn't create. How do I find out this password?

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Legend

To combine signed PDFs use a portfolio. It is impossible to combine digitally signed PDFs into a normal single PDF, by design; it's fundamental because the signature applies to the whole document. You cannot add extra material under a signature, imagine what fraudsters could do with a signed contract! There are tricks to combine but all of them lose the digital signature, again by design.

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Kelli23516625pag9Author

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It makes sense that I can't edit it after it's been signed, and that's fine, it's just really inconvienet that I can't combine them into one document. But that's ok, there are worse things in the world.

Thank you for the response.

Meenakshi_Negi

Legend

Hi Kelli,

Thank you for reaching out.

Could you please share all the steps you do to send the document for signature?

If you are sending document for signature via the Request Signature feature or Adobe Sign, please refer to the information provided on the following help page on passwords: https://community.adobe.com/t5/adobe-sign-discussions/password-protect-the-document-in-adobe-sign/td-p/11490167. It may be the reason you get the signed copy as password protected.

Let us know if that is not the case.

Thanks,

Meenakshi

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Kelli23516625pag9Author

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Thank you, I will check out th elink you provided.

The answer below yours also makes sense though.

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