Although it's not part of the discussion, just to expand a bit, what you see on the page is not the digital signature, but rather a graphical representation of the signature. The signature itself is a blob of data embedded in the PDF file that you never see unless you open the file with a text editor. That said, this graphical representation can be thought of as having two layers, a background layer and a foreground layer. The background layer contains just one thing and that's either the Acrobat trefoil logo or whatever is in the SignatureLogo.pdf file. The trefoil only appears in lieu of a SignatureLogo.pdf file. If the SignatureLogo.pdf file is present it always takes precedence over the trefoil. More about the background in awhile. The foreground layer can be thought of having two half's. The left half can be a graphic, although if no graphic file has been selected then Acrobat (and when I say Acrobat I really mean both Acrobat and Reader) puts in textual representation of the signer's common name. The right half of the foreground layer is the textual representation of the certificate data. As the user you have control of all three of these elements (the one background layer and the two halves of the foreground). As we've already discussed the background layer is controlled by the contents of the Signature Logo file. Control of the two sides of the foreground layer is controlled by the Custom Signature Appearance controls in the Preferences dialog. Back to the SignatureLogo.pdf file. You start with an image, and with a little luck for Adobe you used Illustrator and Photoshop to create. Even if you didn't use an Adobe product for your graphic creation you hopefully have a vector art representation of your logo and you probably had to reduce the opacity on it to at least 50% in order for it to not overwhelm the signature foreground. Acrobat will try to center up the image in the background layer, but if you have a chunk of whitespace on the right side of the image that you put into the Signature Logo file, then the logo itself will be pushed to the left, but you can't tell because the whitespace just blends into the page. Without seeing the source file it's hard for me to give you a definitive answers, but my suggestion is to look for white space on the right side of the image and make sure that it was cropped off in an image editing program (Photoshop ). To control what you see in the foreground you need to get into the Preferences via the Edit > Preferences menu item. It's slightly different on the Mac, but you said that you have Designer and Designer doesn't ship with the Mac version of Acrobat so I'll stick to Windows for now. From the Preferences dialog select Security from the Categories list box (again, you have Designer and Designer doesn't ship with version 11 so I know you have an earlier version of Acrobat, but for those of you using version 11 select Signatures from the list box and then click the Creation & Appearance More button ). Click the New button and then add a title. At this point you cal play with the options to get the signature the way you want it to look. Once you select the Imported graphic radio button you'll have a better idea what I mean when I said the foreground is divided into two halves. Eventually you will a set of options that provides the appearance that you are striving for. Steve
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