Setting to auto delete signatures when printing PDF

Is there some way to automatically delete signatures from a PDF when printing to PDF (flattening document)?

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After they've been signed? No (unless you signed them yourself).

But a printed digital signature is meaningless, anyway.

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Thanks for the reply.

Trying to avoid someone flattening a PDF and extracting signature as an image. Are you aware of any plugins that might do the job?

Community Expert

An image of a digital signature is also meaningless, although many people fail to understand that...

One possible solution, though, is to set the field's Appearance to "Visible, but doesn't print", under Properties - General:

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