Adobe Acrobat Digital Signatures

Creating a New Digital Signing ID

1. Open Adobe Acrobat XI, select the “Edit” menu bar, and open Preferences.
   
2. In the Preferences menu, select Signatures in the left column.
3. In the Signatures section, select More… under Identities & Trusted Certificates, as shown below:
   
4. The Digital ID and Trusted Certificate Settings dialog box will open. Select Add ID from the top menu bar, as shown:
   
5. Select “A new digital ID I want to create now” and press Next
   
   
6. If on Windows, select “Windows Certificate Store” and press Next
   
   
7. Enter your appropriate information and select Finish (you may leave “Organizational Unit” blank)
   
   
8. That’s it! You’ve created your own personal Digital Signature, which is linked to your Windows logon.

 

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Inserting Your Signing ID Into a PDF

1. Now that we have our Digital Signature (see above), let’s place it into a Document. In the top-right corner you should see a Tools | Sign | Comment section, select Sign and then Place Signature
   
2. The “Drag New Signature Rectangle” box appears, select Drag New Signature Rectangle…
   
3. Create your signature box as needed, and when you finish dragging, the Sign Document box will appear. Select the signature in the Sign As box that we created above.
   • Note: You can also select New ID… from this menu to bring up the Add Digital ID wizard instead of going through the Preferences as highlighted above.
     
4. Your signature will be placed in the signature box you just created, and it will look something like this:
   
5.  A verification box will appear at the top of the document, as shown:
   
6. You’re done! If you would like to see the properties of the signature, you may click it and select “Signature Properties” to see the following: