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Form blocked after sign in draw field

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December 22, 2019
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Hey,

hope you can understand my problem, cause I´m not a english native speaker.

I try to make a form in adobe acrobat DC, cause we would like to reduce our paper. Idea is: Make the form as pdf, take it on cloud and our externals can sync their tablets, copy the form, fill it with custumer and he can sign it on the tablet.

So far, so easy. Problem ist the date and the sign. After the customer did his sign on paper, the fields (name, date, checkboxes etc.) should be blocked for ever. The sign on tablet should deaktivate the edit-function of the form.

Sadly i can´t find a good german book about adobe acrobat DC. And in google are some tutorials, which are not working yet. Maybe one of you have a good link or a idea.

Thank you.

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Orange RavenAuthor

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Thanks to all for help. Today we found a so simple solution. Sometimes you need some days away and a rethink.

After filling the form we can sign it in app with the sign funktion (App in Android can store 2 signs, so we just delete it every time).

And after it we just print it as pdf. Print, not safe. Thats important. In the print PDF no form-fields are editable and the sign is in it. Safe enought to been proof in german law for what we need.

Thanks to all for help. The Script button will help anyways in another project I think about.

try67

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Are you sure it's acceptable? What you have created is basically just a document with a hand-written signature. It is trivial to edit its contents using something like Adobe Acrobat. If you want to get real security that the contents has not been changed then you must use a proper Digital Signature field.

Orange RavenAuthor

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It used the fill and sign option in Adobe Acrobat Reader App.

Yeah, its editable in some ways, like more or less every pdf if you realy try. Its in this case enough. You can see the create date in cloud, the printed pdf is sent with E-Mail to two Mailadresses (Customer and Backoffice). For that case and that kind of needs its fine.

barbara_a7746676

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To make it clear, the JavaScript button that I described would need to be separate from the signature field. After the person signs, they would need to click the button in order to lock the form.

ls_rbls

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Hi Barbara_Ash,

I am also learning javascript, can you briefly elaborate a little more why the javascript has to be executed from a button and not as an additional javascript action in the same signature field?

barbara_a7746676

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Actually, it could be added to the signature field.

barbara_a7746676

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In order to prevent changes after signing, open the Properties panel for the signature for field. You can double-click on the field or right-click or select it and press Enter.

Once the Digital Signature Properties panel opens, select the Signed tab and select the 'Mark as read-only' button. Then choose which fields you want to lock.

Orange RavenAuthor

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I try what you wrote. Sadly there is a problem or I missunderstood something.

I don´t want to add a digital signature. I just want sign on a tablet in a field and after that make it read only. If I add a digital signature property it only work after I make a digital signature (windows, acrobat reader) and it don´t worl with adobe reader on android or windows. After just wirte in the field, the other fields are still editable.

Steps:

- Office make a form and safe it on cloud (onedrive, google, adobe)

- externals go to the custumer, fill the form and in the end give the customer the tablet

- customer write on tablet screen his signatur

- external safe the form on cloud

- now the pdf is read only and not longer editable

Thank you.

Orange RavenAuthor

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Yes, you are absolut right. I confusing some thing I think. I´m not that bad in IT things (some semester study in it long time ago) and I´m working in mainly in webservice (Website, SEO, Ads etc.) and have some skills in Illustrator. Thats why there are some know things, but mostly not sure. 🙂

Ok, step by step. Thank you for the information, that the mobile apps mostly not support the sign. But as I wrote, that issue is not a big one, cause we have the choice to use Windows divece. There is no need for android yet.

I´m using for testing oneDrive, but Adobe Cloud is possible to use too. We haven´t deciede it yet. On Andorid there is a option in OneDrive to open a cloud PDF with another app. Problem ist, that you only can open it local. You have to safe it as a copy and upload it again. The App Xodo works here baraley. The digital sign field works, but the button does not. Haven´t tested yet what happens when you take the javaScript in the sign field, because the copy-safe-again-steps are not smooth and is a source of error with our not digital-native-externals.

The realy very last problem ist, that I only need a form field for drawing the signature. A field which get read only after hit the javaScript Button. Sadly the sign field is not a option.

Little push. Did anyone have a solution for the last and final problem?

"The realy very last problem ist, that I only need a form field for drawing the signature. A field which get read only after hit the javaScript Button. Sadly the sign field is not a option."

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