Form Field for a real time drawing

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I am trying to create a custom signature field. My boss has tasked me with creating a document that we can hand an ipad or similar device to a client and let them draw their own signature in the field. I see a way to do this with a pen tool, but that does not restrict the signature to the box, and there is a way to create a custom digital signature for the document, but because the device shall be the same that the technician will use, the signature (self signed, anyway) will be the same underneath it all.   So what we want is a way to create a form text box you can just add a real time drawing. Is this possible?

Thom Parker · Accepted Answer

Thanks. Yes, I'm familiar with the Topaz e-signature pads, but that solution is less than ideal. Is there a reason that Topaz is an accepted signature but a touch screen into a document is not? A couple of more questions:

Is there no way to create this form with JavaScript?

Could this be done in Word or another document editing software?

Is something like this only available in 3rd party software? I'm hoping to keep our costs down because there are only 3 people who will need this system.

Thanks again.

The mobile version of Reader provides this solution as a default. Just put a signature field on a PDF, and when you click on it in either IOS or Andriod, Reader will prompt you to draw a signature. But this is only on Mobile Reader. The desktop Acrobat/Reader is very different. There is however a way to do it, although it is clunky. The desktop Acrobat/Reader has a pen too for drawing. This pen tool can be activated with JavaScript. So you could create a button that prompts the user to draw a signature, or just tell them to do it manually, but there is no easy way to detect when the user is done, so they have to be instructed to turn the pen tool off.

Given this, you could write scripts to detect the platform and make the signature field visible on mobile, and the pen button visible when on the desktop. Neither would work in other viewers.

I don't know about word, you 'd have to ask someone who works with it.

jasonc3096183 · Answer

I should mention that I am not set on a platform, this could be an Android tablet, or Windows tablet, or whatever. If it is something like PDF Expert which only has a Mac version I cannot use it, my company has no Macs. So primarily I need the initial editing to be done in either Windows or Linux, but ideally the document should be usable on multiple platforms.

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