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Adobe Pro blacking out secure signature

New Here ,
May 13, 2016 May 13, 2016

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Hi

I am a realtor and use Adobe Pro DC and a program through our mls called Authentisign.

I had a  document that was signed through authentisign and when printed on both my office and home computers would black out the signature.

When other people printed it, it would print correctly.

In doing some research, there was a similar issue on an adobe forum where the person was told to print as image--so I did.  It worked.

What would be causing the signatures to be blacked out?  I have printed other documents created from the same program, and have never had an issue.

When printing, you can go to advanced and it looks as if a black sheet of paper is put over the document.  When you print as image, there is nothing blocking the document.

Anyone have any ideas?  At least I have a work-around, but as I have said I haven't had any issues in the past.

Thank you all for your help!

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Adobe Employee , May 26, 2016 May 26, 2016

Hi Tamera,

Good to hear that the problem wasn't generic and file specific. If you come across any such file in future and which you can share with us, please send it across so that we can investigate it. We are not aware of any settings causing blacking out issue because we are not able to see the problem in-house.

Thanks,

Vishal

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Adobe Employee ,
May 19, 2016 May 19, 2016

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Hi,

We released an update yesterday that fixes a related Output Preview bug. Could you please go to Acrobat and visit Help > Check for updates. Let us know if you still face the issue after applying the update.

Thanks,

-ashu

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New Here ,
May 20, 2016 May 20, 2016

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Ashu

Thank you for your response.

When I went to update--it said there were no updates available.

I tried printing again, and got the same result when it wasn't printing as an image.

Tamera

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Adobe Employee ,
May 20, 2016 May 20, 2016

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Hi Tamera,

Can you go to Acrobat Help > About Acrobat Pro DC and let me know the version info?

-ashu

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New Here ,
May 21, 2016 May 21, 2016

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Ashu

Is this what you are needing?  Thank you for trying to help.  By the way--this has just started doing this.  I wasn't having any problems with the secure signatures printing from Authentisign before this happened.

Tamera

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Adobe Employee ,
May 21, 2016 May 21, 2016

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Thanks for supplying this information Tamera. I will ask engineering to take a look.

Will keep you posted.

Regards,

-ashu

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New Here ,
May 21, 2016 May 21, 2016

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Thank you!

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Adobe Employee ,
May 24, 2016 May 24, 2016

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Hi Tamera,

Can you please let us know following things to narrow down the issue?

1) Color Management settings snapshot from Acrobat DC. You can get the dialog from Edit -> Preferences -> Go to Color Management option in left hand panel

2) Can you please try changing the RGB working space and see if that solves the black preview issue of Advance Print dialog?

3) Can you do "Print to File" (this checkbox comes in Advanced print dialog) and share the file with me (please send it to vishal@adobe.com)

Thanks,

Vishal

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New Here ,
May 24, 2016 May 24, 2016

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Vishal

What do you want me to change the RGB to?  i changed it to Color Match RGB and had the same result.  However, when going to the advanced option--the black did not cover the form--but the signatures were still blacked out when it printed.

The form is a real estate form with addreses and names, so I would prefer not to send by email.

Thank you for trying to help.

Tamera

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Adobe Employee ,
May 24, 2016 May 24, 2016

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Hi Tamera,

We are able to reproduce the Advance Print dialog black preview and i have reported the bug to engineering team for investigation.

Now, regarding black signature in printout, Is it possible for you to create another signed document (which doesn't have any confidential info) from authentisign and send it to us? Please make sure that you have checked that same document also resulted in black signature when printed.

Thanks,

Vishal

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New Here ,
May 25, 2016 May 25, 2016

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Vishal

I did a sample file in authentisign--and I can't reproduce the same problem.

Maybe it was just the one file--because I know that I did not have any problems before that particular file.

What stumps me is that other people can print the document without  any problems, but I can't.  I have adobe on both of my computers, and two different printers.  I have had the same issue on both computers, but others can print without an issue.

Thank you for your help.

Is there a security setting that would cause the blacking out of the signatures?

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Adobe Employee ,
May 26, 2016 May 26, 2016

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Hi Tamera,

Good to hear that the problem wasn't generic and file specific. If you come across any such file in future and which you can share with us, please send it across so that we can investigate it. We are not aware of any settings causing blacking out issue because we are not able to see the problem in-house.

Thanks,

Vishal

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New Here ,
Feb 02, 2021 Feb 02, 2021

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Hi,

 

I'm running into this same issue whenever I send my boss a digitally signed document. Since digitial signing is such a big part of jobs now with remote working a big part of many people's lives, there should be a workaround. It's not just PC only; he works off a Mac and I'm signing documents on a PC and a mobile device. 

 

Thanks,

Josiah

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New Here ,
Oct 10, 2018 Oct 10, 2018

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The problem is that the latest update does not have the right option checked in by default.

Solution: Go to Print > Advanced (the option next to preferences on top) >  Print as image (check this box)

All the black outs are on the image files whether it be the logo or signature part. Selecting this option will prevent the black box.

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LEGEND ,
Oct 10, 2018 Oct 10, 2018

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Print as image is not the default and must not be. It is a very poor substitute for printing normally, but it’s there as an emergency measure for when things don’t work. It’s a good thing to know about, a poor thing to rely on.

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New Here ,
Jun 21, 2016 Jun 21, 2016

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Vishal, I am having exactly the same issue.  Signatures applied in Docusign are blacked out when I print the document from a pdf in Adobe Acrobat Reader DC 15.016.20045  This is very frustrating and a big time waster.  I have tried everything you suggested in this string, and more.  How are the engineers coming along with a fix for this bug now that it's been a month since your last post?  Thank you, pam

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