Question about Digital Signature Format?

Report · Sep 15, 2023

I am a manager in my organization. Since COVID, we've been using digital signatues for many existing forms, as people (still) aren't often physically in the office. My question is this - why do I sometimes see my signature image as an option (I scanned this back in 2019.) and sometimes just text?

Is that a funciton of how the signature field was setup?

Here are the examples:

Report · Sep 16, 2023

The first screenshot doesn't look like a digital signature, but something else, like the Fill & Sign tool, or a stamp.

A digital signature (usually) displays information about the date and time it was applied, has a special background, etc. But the best way to verify it is to look in the Signatures panel and see there if the file is actually signed digitally, or just has the appearance of such a signature.

However, a digital signature profile can have multiple appearances created for it. Many people like to add a scanned image of their hand-written signature to it, to enjoy the best of both worlds, as it were.

Report · Sep 18, 2023

Thank you. So, what are they not doing that I can add an image to the digital signatue. I get probably half a dozen items per day. Some allow my image, others don't. I'd like to have my image, along with the date/time of the signature.