fill and digitally sign pdf forms

[hector.gill4]

Greetings,

I am a U.S. military reservist. With our goverment computers we have adobe pro and can digitally fill and sign pdf forms. When working from home with a personnel computer I can only fill and sign some pdf forms (I only have adobe reader DC). I'm trying to figure out why. Does the creator of form need to set permissions so that adobe reader owners can fill and sign? The answer can not be to purchase adobe pro, as again, there are forms that I can fill and sign and others I can't.  I noticed that under File-Properties-security, some of my pdf forms are set to "allowed" for fill and sign. Other forms are not. This is where I believe the problems begins.

Thank you-

[LinSims]

Let me move this to the Acrobat Reader forum for you, where you are more likely to receive an answer to your question.

Note that the Community Help forum is for help in how to use the Adobe Communities. Product questions should be posted in the associated product community.

[AkanchhaS]

Hey there!

Thanks for well explaining the issue. 

In your initial post, you actually answered this query as well. It rarely matters whether you are using Acrobat DC or freeware Reader DC for applying signature. 

What matters is, whether your document's security allows to sign it or not. Documents which are not allowed to Fill & Sign would not let you to apply signature, because its secured while creating them.

You can only Fill & Sign the PDFs whose document properties allows to do so. 

Thanks,

Akanchha 

[hector.gill4]

Akanchha,

Thanks for the information. My next question would be: How can a form that is non fillable due to only having reader become fillable? I would think that someone with property permissions or full software access can set the form to allow fill and sign for those that only have reader. I know this is true as I've been able to fill and sign some forms but not others with just reader. 

Thank you,

Hector