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mortonw52494743
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June 7, 2020
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Preparing a PDF for digital signatures

  • June 7, 2020
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Cannot find "simple" instructions to prepare a PDF document for digital signatures (plural) NOT ELECTRONIC SIGNATURES. Need also to be able to add a date. Thanks in advance.

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Nancy OShea
Community Expert
Community Expert
June 7, 2020
Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
mortonw52494743
Participant
June 10, 2020
Thanks very much for the link.

Seems something so simple can be so difficult - i.e., inserting
a placeholder

for a digital signature. In addition that only placeholders for
digital

signatures can be inserted without being able to insert other
placeholders

for other information, e.g. dates.



Mort
Nancy OShea
Community Expert
Community Expert
June 11, 2020

Where I live, legal forms/documents have one signature line.

Dates and other information are entered into the form input fields.

 

 

 

 

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
Legend
June 7, 2020

What sort of preparation? You just sign it. You decide whether to lock before Handing on to the next signer who has Acrobat. Never sign the document twice with same signature, never never. The signature panel will show the date. No need for a separate one, indeed it would be counter productive to add info for people to trust outside the panel. 

mortonw52494743
Participant
June 7, 2020
Thanks very much for your quick response.



It is very hard to respond to a question with little specifics -
so I most appreciate your help.

Took me forever to realize there is a difference between an
electronic signature (copy/paste) and a digital signature (more
legal I presume - see

example below).



Do you happen to have a link to instructions on how to prepare a
PDF document for a digital signature?







It been so long since I signed this I cannot even remember how I
signed - but someone had to have prepared the document

to digitally sign - I know it was not me.



I also need to be able to input a date on a Certificate of
Service - seems the document is locked and only digital
signatures

can be inputted. So in preparing the PDF to digitally sign, need
to keep the date box open to insert a day and month.





Hopefully a lil more explanatory?



Thank you again! Mort
Legend
June 7, 2020

1. If you need to add a date other changes you MUST do it before you sign, not after. The signing is final, not a step along the way, to be added to in any way.

2. There is no preparation needed. You just sign. However, you need to give careful consideration to the certificate you sign with. Is self certification enough or does it need to come from a legal authority?