Print restrictions and Signatures

[Alfonso_Lopez]

I need three people to digitally sign a PDF. After that I need to add security to prevent printing. Is this simple enough or shall I elaborat more???

[ls_rbls]

It depends on your angle and what other surprising elements  are you willing to share about the current workflow in your organization.

Not sure if you actually posted a statement or an actual question.

But you don't have them sign and then add security and restrictions. You first create the PDF document, then you add restrictions and protect with password, then you send for signature.

Here's the apropriate Adobe guidance: 

• https://helpx.adobe.com/reader/using/print-pdfs.html#why_can_t_i_print_my_document

And here's the appropriate workflow if what you're actually asking about concerns about enforcing security standards in your workflow:

•   https://helpx.adobe.com/reader/using/send-for-signature.html

Is this simple enough or shall I elaborate more???

[Alfonso_Lopez]

I was actually looking for the proper procedure to do two things: Add multiple Signatures and restrict a document from printing by adding Password Protection. I fail to see what your comment "It depends on your angle and what other surprising elements are you willing to share about the current workflow in your organization." has to do with my inquiry. I have been Googling the procedure but could not find a response. All I would find was how to do each function individually but not how to do them together.

Personally, I expected a professional "Customer Service" service. I guess I expected too much.  Feel free to forward my inquiry and comments to your supervisor. I apologize for having botherd you.

[ls_rbls]

I don't work for Adobe, this is a user to user community  support forum, I help people here on a voluntary basis and just like you I am a customer.

And no it didn't bother me, but initially I thought you were being sarcastic.

Normally users don't provide the necessary information like type of operating system, Adobe Acrobat version, and in this case, what type of signature workflow : digital versus electronic signature.  Yes it could be simple, but no it gets complicated depending on what exactly the Client is trying to achive, and if it involves secured encrypted email,  document encryption and compliance standards etc.

So in that sense I wasn't sarcastic at all, it does gets complicated., 

[Alfonso_Lopez]

Ok. I read what you are saying and I see that I need to provide more information.
I create drawings from AutoCAD. These require three ink signatures. Due to the current situation, people are working from home so we have decided to use digital signatures. The person responsible for initiating the signatures is using Fill & Sign request signatures. Everyone gets an email request for their signature. At the end of the signature run, I am required to Password protect the document restricting it from printing. Adobe DC does not let me add the restriction. I tried adding the password before the signatures and I get a “Password too weak” message. My company has a set standard for passwords and I cannot deviate from this. I need to find a solution that allows me to add multiple signatures and Password protect from printing, using my “weak” password.

Tech details: We are all on Windows 10 Enterprise and using Adobe DC Version 2020.006.20042

As for the signature type (Digital vs Electronic) if I understand corerectly, the Fill & Sign function is a digital signature.
Please let me know if you need any other information.

[Thom Parker]

Ok, I didn't see the last bit of your last response. So ignore my first answer. 

You are already using Adobe Sign.The final PDF returned after signing is "Signed" with a a digital certificate, which prevents further edits to the PDF.  As you've discovered, the password security needs to be added before the the digital certificate is applied.  Did you try adding the password to the PDF itself  before putting it into the Adobe Sign process?