Signature information box needs to be moved or hidden

Forum|Forum|2 years ago
May 19, 2023
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Here's an example of a document with some signature information overlapped.
I get it: you need to verify the signature.
I can also see the signature is fine.
Now I want to move it away or hide it so I can read what's underneath, because that is actually a really important piece of information.
Why is that impossible to do?
There is no menu option to hide it. There is no option to move or hide on right-click. In the signature bar there's also nothing on right click or in any way... It is unbelievable to me, how such a simple feature could be completely missing.

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try67

Community Expert

A signed document can't be edited. This is an integral part of a digital signature.

Also, you can't know the signature is valid just by looking at it, you have to validate it against a public key to do that.

The fault is with whoever designed the form, if they placed the signature field on top of other contents. You need to ask them to fix it in future versions of the file.

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Mihai29961310pg4vAuthor

Participant

You misunderstood my request,

I do not ask to be allowed to edit the document. Let me clarify by taking a step back: you said, "you can't know the signature is valid just by looking at it", and I totally agree. So, why does Adobe Acrobat Reader force me to look at it? How is forcing me to look at that signature improving my experience while reading that document?

I agree with you that whoever created the document could be more careful, but in the meantime I am asking you for a feature that would make my life better: "allow me to temporarily stop seeing a useless, unverifiable graphics of a signature which was already verified and confirmed to be genuine and which brings no value to the document just by being displayed there in a fixed (random) location".

Thanks.

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