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Mar 31, 2025 2:17 PM UTC
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Custom Digital Signature Appearances - Acrobat Pro 2020

Hello everybody,

 

I need to change the field labels that may be included into a "Custom Digital Signature Appearance" in Acrobat Pro 2020.

 

Here is a help article about it.

https://www.adobe.com/devnet-docs/acrobatetk/tools/DigSigDC/appearances.html

 

The help article does not mention anything about how to change the field labels.

 

There is just a tickbox to turn some field labels on or off.

 

I need to change the texts of the field labels (Digitally signed by:, DN:, Reason:, Location: , etc)

 

I do not need any text formatting like bold, italic, etc,.

I only need to change the texts.

 

Just as an example, I need to change the "Digitally Signed by" into "Electronically Signed by".

 

The help article doesn't describe or even mention how to do that.

 

In Acrobat Pro 2020;

Can I do it?

How can I do it?

 

Thank you all and kind regards,

Hakan

 

 

 

 

 

 

2 replies

try67
Community Expert
Community Expert
Mar 31, 2025 3:23 PM UTC

Not possible. What you can do, though, is disable all of these texts and create your own image, but it won't contain any of the dynamic information that is a part of the signature, like the date.

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OSHM02Author
Participant
Mar 31, 2025 8:07 PM UTC

Thank you try67,

Someone with a little more coding knowledge could possibly achieve it by tweaking one or some of the files under this directory.

C:\Users\MyName\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Acrobat\2020\Security

For example, there, there is a file named appearances.acrodata
Anyway,  that is beyond my capacity.
Thanks again.

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