Preparing a PDF for digital signatures

[mortonw52494743]

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.

[Test Screen Name]

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]

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

[Test Screen Name]

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?

[Test Screen Name]

Nancy's reply has given me another idea. As I said you do not need to prepare a document to be signed in Acrobat (paid product). But 

- if you want to fill in a form, it needs to be prepared 

- if you want people who have only the free Reader to make a digital signature, it has to be prepared as a form with signature fields.

[mortonw52494743]

Thanks very much for all your help!!

I need to go back to 3rd grade!!



Mort Wakeland ("Mort")

Dallas, Texas

[Nancy OShea]

Please see this help article.

https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/creating-distributing-pdf-forms.html

[mortonw52494743]

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]

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

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