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June 3, 2013
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Echosign Signature pane appearing at the top of Acrobat files 11.0.03 Mac

  • June 3, 2013
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How do I get rid of this? It's driving me mad.

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    Correct answer SimonATS

    This will be improved in the next Reader 11 update (11.04)

    but you  can disable on the Mac as follows:

    - close Acrobat

    - find the Acrobat application in your application folder

    - right click the app icon and select 'Show Package Contents' from the context menu

    - here browse to Contents>MacOS>Preferences

    - right click the FeatureLockdown file and open it with Text edit, or any other text editor you have installed.

    - with the file open find the very last '>>' and place the cursor right in front of it

    - copy and paste the following to that location

    /Services [ /c << /EnableEchoSignDetection [ /b false] >>

    - save and close the file

    When you open the file the last few lines look like this

    ...|Print Pro&duction|Ja&vaScript|&Accessibility|Analy&ze|&Annotations|D&rawing Markups|Revie&w) ]

    >> ] >>

    after pasting the text above it should look like this:

    |Print Pro&duction|Ja&vaScript|&Accessibility|Analy&ze|&Annotations|D&rawing Markups|Revie&w) ]

    >> ] /Services [ /c << /EnableEchoSignDetection [ /b false] >> ]>>

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    SimonATSCorrect answer
    Legend
    August 13, 2013

    This will be improved in the next Reader 11 update (11.04)

    but you  can disable on the Mac as follows:

    - close Acrobat

    - find the Acrobat application in your application folder

    - right click the app icon and select 'Show Package Contents' from the context menu

    - here browse to Contents>MacOS>Preferences

    - right click the FeatureLockdown file and open it with Text edit, or any other text editor you have installed.

    - with the file open find the very last '>>' and place the cursor right in front of it

    - copy and paste the following to that location

    /Services [ /c << /EnableEchoSignDetection [ /b false] >>

    - save and close the file

    When you open the file the last few lines look like this

    ...|Print Pro&duction|Ja&vaScript|&Accessibility|Analy&ze|&Annotations|D&rawing Markups|Revie&w) ]

    >> ] >>

    after pasting the text above it should look like this:

    |Print Pro&duction|Ja&vaScript|&Accessibility|Analy&ze|&Annotations|D&rawing Markups|Revie&w) ]

    >> ] /Services [ /c << /EnableEchoSignDetection [ /b false] >> ]>>

    Legend
    August 13, 2013

    in  Windows adding the following regkey:

    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Adobe\Adobe Acrobat\11.0\FeatureLockDown\cServices

    "bEnableEchoSignDetection"=dword:00000000

    The cServices key does not exist so needs to be added manually.

    Replace Adobe Acrobat in the key with Adobe Reader to do the same for Reader.