How do I sign a W-9 form?

As mentioned by other ACP's in this thread, the isue is not with Adobe Acrobat Pro or lack of a feature.

The IRS need to update that form.

After all that money that they collect from law-abiding citizens ( those who really choose to obediently pay their taxes every year and on everything they purchase), I don't understand how or why  can't they hire a computer savvy person to fix that signature field with the old LiveCycle designer product that they purchased years ago.

Better yet, just simply recreate that PDF document from scratch using Acrobat Pro DC.

As far as I can see , they are also not following a good hygiene in protecting consumer information  nor abiding to appropriate electronic records compliance standards;  they continue to distribute to the public such an outdated, counter-productive and hackable PDF.

Don't forget that YOU, the tax-payer (or  consumer ) have rights.

As such, YOU need to bring that up to them.

These public Internet forum IS NOT  the IRS, and they're obviously can't  listen to your moaning and complaining from here.

It wouldn't surprise me  if they haven't been audited in more than a decade for software licensing... someone from the BSA please??? Anyone ???

... yeah, I didn't think so; they're probably friends with them too.

Since it is not really that hard to recreate that PDF from scratch, and from reading all of  the perceived attitudes of frustrated PDF users in these forums, do you really think that it matters to the IRS if  tax-payers refry (or flatten that crap of a PDF) in order to be able to edit text fields with ANY capable PDF editor?

How can the IRS protect your consumer information if they don't get proactive and fix a form that everyone seems to be hacking just to add a stupid signature in the first place?

See this other discussion:

• https://community.adobe.com/t5/acrobat-reader-discussions/can-t-add-date-in-a-quot-fill-and-sign-quot-w-9-document-how-do-i-do-this/m-p/13171298#M93876

The same argument remains... Like it or not, the IRS need to get on the ball and fix that form... period!

Another workaround I foudn was to export the PDF to a JPEG then insert it into a Microsoft Word file and insert a text box with a date then make another PDF of that file.

Acrobat doesn't seem to have the features I remember it having before.
Sometimes it just easier to print it out in real life.

Now that I think about it...you could save out your PDF, then open it in photoshop and add whatever text and then resave as a photoshop PDF. That might work. Given you run into this on another document and not the stinkin IRS.

The IRS form W-9 when required by the IRS requires a pen and ink signature. The IRS requires this form be signed when the exemptions are so large there is no income tax withheld or the individual is claiming an exemption from the income tax withholding.

Others, not the IRS, use this form for gathering personal information and my accept other types of signatures but if they are required to have a signed form per the IRS administrative rules, it must be in pen and ink.

Very few of the IRS allow for digital signatures. The IRS has established a system unique to the IRS for gathering signatures electronically and it is only used by the IRS. It can contain certain information that is or should be known only to the individual and the IRS.

I encountered the same issue with the latest Adobe Acrobat.

My workaround was to use Chrome to fill out the fillable fields, then print to PDF, then open the flattened PDF in Acrobat to add the signature and date.

‌Did you install the updates of Adobe Acrobat Pro DC?