Question about Digital Signature Format?

Question

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:

try67 · Answer

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.

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