Keeping a PDF form editable for more than 1 person to sign

[melanie_5084]

How do you keep a PDF editable after someone has signed it, to allow another person to add to the form and sign it via the editable sections. It appears to not be editable once a person has signed and saved the form.

[Amal.]

Hi there 

Hope you are doing well and thanks for reaching out.

This is the design behaviour. Once the signature process is complete, the PDF files are locked for further editing, thereby securing the integrity of the document.

If you want to have multiple signatures on the PDF file, please check the steps shared in the help page https://adobe.ly/4k5qAne 

Let us know if you experience any trouble and need more help.

[MikelKlink]

Which kind of signatures do you mean exactly?

Do you mean mere images of ink signatures? Do you mean applying a digital signature in your local Acrobat using local cryprographic key material? Or do you mean applying signatures using the Adobe Acrobat Sign service? What the next person is allowed or disallowed to do depends on which of these options you mean and which parameters you set.

[melanie_5084]

I mean just applying a signature to an editable form so generally an image of an ink signature or one saved in Adobe that has been drawn. But I also need the PDF to stioll be editable after the first person signature so that another can add details such as name and date and possibly still be able to edit any check boxes or other editable sections and then sign aswell.

[MikelKlink]

Just adding an image of an ink signature should not make a difference for the next person. How do you add the image?

[melanie_5084]

Its added in Adobe on an editable form. When you save the form it closes all editable functions so then if i send to someone else they dont have editable sections to complete.

[Thom Parker]

Nothing you've described would lock the form. So, something else must be going on. Perhaps there is a script on the form that is causing this behavior.

Could you please do one or both of the following

1. Post an example of the form that is not editable. 

2. Describe the exact steps (including menu items) of the signing process. Screen captures and/or a video would be perfect.