Fillable PDF form fields disappearing after saving

I have multiple people trying to sign my document. That is bothersome.

Hi Akanchha

Thanks for your reply. It was very frustrating as it was quite random weather it would happen or not.

You were correct, some students were using a saved digital signature, others were using the draw function in the comments section. The ones using the digital signature were being locked out of the entire document after saving.

Thanks for your help, ill make sure signing is the last step after marking.

Just by chance is there a way of turning off that function so the form stays editable after signing?

Regards

Adrian Gibbons
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Hey Adrian, 

Thanks for the detailed description. From the description given above, in sort what I understood it, after filling and saving the half of the form, its getting locked and restricted to make further changes or filling. 

There are couple of possibilities, why its happening-

1- f you have a signature field assigned to each student, while filling the form, they might have added their signature on it and then saved it. 

Signing is a final process, once done, your document is restricted to make further changes and becomes uneditable. 

Ask them to do not apply signature on it, unless you are not done with all the fields.

2- Form is being used to fill in using a 3rd part app. Ask them to use either freeware Acrobat Reader DC or Acrobat DC (paid) desktop application. 

If nothing works, then help us with a sample form. We'd try to fill it at our end. 

Thanks,

Akanchha