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Please help.
What am i doing wrong????
1. Prepare Form
2. "This document requires signatures" - I checked this box
3. Click Start
3. The "text Filed Properties" only has General, Appearance, Position and Options as tabs for formatting the text filed.
OR
1. Prepare Form
2. "This document requires signatures" - DO NOT check this box
3. Click Start
3. The "text Filed Properties has extra tabs - General, Appearance, Position, Options Actions, Format, Validate and Calculate as tabs for formatting the text filed.
I want to be able format text with the extra tabs when I create a document that requires signature.
I am using a lease template that I add in some info specific to that lease and then send out for digital signature thru adobe sign.
The template has about 50 places to sign and initial.
When I use Adobe Sign and the template, Adobe Sign already knows where all parties should sign as per the order of there email in Adobe Sign, I do not have to go in and place where everyone needs to sign each time. That's the beauty of how the template works.
We used to miss a initial spot and that would invalidate the lease legally.
But I want to format some text fields that I have in my template to be dollar amounts, so the form automatically puts the $ sign in.
Any idea?
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Don't create a Adobe Sign form. Create a Acrobat form and add a signature field.
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There is nothing wrong. The first screenshot is from a Adobe Sign Form, the second from a Acrobat Form.
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No I am only using Adobe Acrobat Pro DC
When you check the box - "This document requires signatures"
The text field options are circled below - only 3.
When you DO NOT check the box - "This document requires signatures"
You get 8 tabs in the text field options
I want to format some of my text fields, but the format is only available if you do not check "This document requires signature"
My document requires signatures and I want to be able to format my text fields with the dollar sign. "$"
Any ideas?
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Don't create a Adobe Sign form. Create a Acrobat form and add a signature field.
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I'm also not finding the difference between various types of available forms very clear... is there any documentation regarding which situation calls for which type of Acrobat form? A matrix of the features missing/available to each of the form types would be handy.
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Is there a way to set the "This document requires signatures" after a form has been created or do we need to start again from scratch?
I did the following:
- Create a new blank form
- Merge the existing form into it as a second page
- Create the signature blocks on the form
- Delete the blank first page.
This seems like a lot of work just to add a checked box to the form.
Thanks,
Don
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Under Tools - Prepare Form, click on "Convert to Adobe Sign Form".
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Just for the record, Adobe are a bunch of flipping MORONS. This feature is so inadequately described it's infuriating. This is seriously the most pathetic example of user UNfriendliness out there. Adobe needs to do a WAY better job at explaining what this feature actually does.
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I am very frustrated by this as well....I want to be able to set up a doc to require a signature (Adobe Sign form) but have those extra options for formatting the fields (available in Acrobat form) so I can set up $$ fields that auto calculate totals & designate these fields as prefill so the receiver can't edit them after I send it on & I can record my official signature before sending as well.
I have it currently set up as an Acrobat form so all of that prefill & auto calculation can happen but then every time I want to send a new statement (which is often) I have to go in & do all the prefill stuff, then I have to edit all of the fillable field properties to set them as read only which is a pain in the a$$ & makes for extra time spent. I don't understand why Adobe sign form can't have the same options for preparing your form or why Acrobat form won't let you set some fields as 'prefill"????
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Adobe Sign is a special way of handling forms. They are sent to Adobe's servers for processing. Adobe Sign forms are limited: you just cannot use these extra things with them. You have to choose BETWEEN using Adobe sign and using these extra features. Why Adobe Sign rather than a local signature?
Adobe have a pattern of adding weird kinds of alternative form and making it seem you need them, when you don't. Adobe Sign forms are at least the third example of this.
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Hi. I have discovered this feature inadvertantly as well. If one creates a "regular" Adobe form and adds signature blocks, can you then put that form into the Adobe Sign ecosystem? I want the features that Adobe Sign has (specifying signing order, routing via email, confirmation email upon signature(s), and completed form distribution to all parties), but I would like to have the features that a regular form has for its text boxes. Specifically the choice for a drop down date picker, which is unavailable in Adobe Sign, is what I would like. Customer picks a date, which is auto-formatted in the field. Additionally, as far as I am aware, a "regular" Adobe form signature block is for a digital signature based on a token, versus giving the signer the ability to use a physical signature on a touch screen with a finger/stylus. What is your suggestion to bridge the differences, as not many people are carrying around a PKI card or have established digital signatures?
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