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Adding Digital Signatures to Existing PDF's
The Digital Signature Viewing Screen has 3 sections:
The upper section where:
you can select between the "Hand" cursor and the "Cross
hair" cursor.
the "Hand" cursor gets used when you want
to move the page around in order to choose the location for the
digital signature place holder. You can also use the scrollbars
to do this.
the "Cross hair" cursor gets used to draw the digital
signature place holder.
you will select the specific page on which you want the Digital Signature
to be applied, you can:
go to the first page
go to the previous page
insert a specific page
move to the next page
go to the last page
you can make the document larger using the zoom factor
The Original Pane:
This side of the screen shows what the PDF looks like.
The Signing Pane:
The Signing Pane shows a duplicate of the existing PDF and this is the
side where you place your Digital Id based signature.
You can place your Digital Signature on any page of an existing PDF file
(even on top of a previous signature that will be replaced):
position the cursor where you will want the image to start from
press the left mouse button
drag your mouse and a shaded place holder will appear on the signing
pane.
Once you have selected the page and position you want the Digital Signature
to be placed, press
to complete processing of your Digitally signed PDF file.
The following is an example of a PDF file signed using a Digital Signature.
If you decide NOT to create a Signed PDF file press .
You will be presented with 3 possible choices:
1
Save this PDF file with an Invisible Digital Signature.
The document will be verifiable based on its Digital Signature.
There will simply be no graphical reference on the PDF page or pages
but the Digital Signature will be present and the Security flag
("Show Signatures") will be visible when viewing the PDF
document.
2
Save this PDF file with no Digital Signature at all. The resulting
file will be a normal unsigned PDF file.
3
Abort saving this PDF (stop processing a new PDF file now). This
will not produce any output at all.
to complete processing of your Digitally signed PDF file.
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