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Transferring Digital Signatures Between Laptops

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June 17, 2017
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Hello,

I have 2 questions please. On my old laptop (Dell Vostro with Windows 7) I have Acrobat X Standard which I used to merge and digitally sign pdfs. I want to buy the most inexpensive software which will allow me to do the same on my new laptop (Dell Inspiron with Widows 10). So my questions are:

(1) Which Adobe software should I buy

(2) Where can I find and how can I transfer the signatures from the old to the new laptops. I had an image of my signature in cursive writing which I used alongside the digital signature.

Thank you

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Correct answer PMpaper

The answer marked as correct here only caused frustration, and I discovered it's easier to either find the correct file on your original laptop or just create a new signature.

As others noted, Adobe only lets you export in .cer, .fdf or .p7c formats, but you need .p12 or .pfx to send it to your new computer. If you originally created the signature as a PKCS#12 file, then it should be easy to find that .pfx file in this location on Windows:

Local Disk>Users>username>AppData>Roaming>Adobe>Acrobat>DC>Security

Once that file is transferred, then use the Add ID function

In my case using Reader DC, the signature was originally created through the Windows Certificate Store, which left a file with no extension called "reader_fss_signature_initials" in the same location above. I could not figure out any way to export this file as a .pfx, even trying to reach it through the Windows certificate manager. After spending far too much time on this, it was easier to just create a new signature.

try67

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PMpaperCorrect answer

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The answer marked as correct here only caused frustration, and I discovered it's easier to either find the correct file on your original laptop or just create a new signature.

As others noted, Adobe only lets you export in .cer, .fdf or .p7c formats, but you need .p12 or .pfx to send it to your new computer. If you originally created the signature as a PKCS#12 file, then it should be easy to find that .pfx file in this location on Windows:

Local Disk>Users>username>AppData>Roaming>Adobe>Acrobat>DC>Security

Once that file is transferred, then use the Add ID function

In my case using Reader DC, the signature was originally created through the Windows Certificate Store, which left a file with no extension called "reader_fss_signature_initials" in the same location above. I could not figure out any way to export this file as a .pfx, even trying to reach it through the Windows certificate manager. After spending far too much time on this, it was easier to just create a new signature.

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Juan22195964lrpp

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Thank you. The same thing happened to me. I spend to much time trying to export my Windows digital ID to another computer following the tutorials export and import and not finding the .p12 or .pfx files.

Bernd Alheit

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(1) Acrobat DC Standard

ConnemaraPonyAuthor

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Thank you Bernd.

ConnemaraPonyAuthor

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Can I have help please with this query?

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