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August 26, 2021
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Questions about PDF Signatures

  • August 26, 2021
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Hi - I am working on a fillable form for my business. Had two questions...

1.  I noticed that the person filling in the form can “clear” their digital ID signature by right clicking the signature and selecting “clear”. Do you know of any way to prohibit that? 
2. Once I sign one note and then make changes to the document by writing in another note, the first signature becomes “invalid” because “there have been changes made to this document that invalidate the signature." Is there a way to prevent that from happening? For these pages, the user will be signing the page after each entry - two enttries per page. They will then go back in and add another note in the same document, when needed.

Help much appreciated. Thanks!

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Legend
August 27, 2021

Never, never set up a workflow where the user is asked, or expected to sign a document more than once. It's pointless, it's bad, and it may even affect the legal validity if the user is misled this way. 

try67
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Community Expert
August 27, 2021

1. No. Why would you want to do that, anyway?

2. This is a bad workflow. PDF files only need to be signed once, at the end of the process of editing and filling them out. Digitally signing a file multiple times by the same person is both not needed and potentially dangerous, and it can cause the file to become corrupt.