Acrobat 9 Family of Products
Authoring Signable Documents
Security Feature User Guide
Customizing Signature Appearances 53
4. Save the file to a PDF file.
5. Open the PDF file in Acrobat.
6. Crop the page and remove white space.
Note:
The method varies across product versions. For example, for 8.x , choose
Document >
Crop Page
and check
Remove White Margins
.
7. Save the file as SignatureLogo.pdf in:
Windows
: C:\Documents and Settings\<user>\Application Data\Adobe\Acrobat\<version>\
Security.
Macintosh
: \Users\<user name>\Library\Application Support\Adobe\Acrobat\<version>\Security
4.2.2.3 Creating a Custom Signature Appearance
Users generally customize one or more signature appearances and store them for later use. Available
signatures are listed in the Appearance panel (
Figure 41
).
Note:
If you have created a watermark file as described in
“Creating a Custom Watermark or
Background” on page 52
, the watermark should automatically appear in all of your
signature appearances.
To create a new signature appearance:
1. Choose
Edit > Preferences
(Windows) or
Acrobat > Preferences
(Macintosh).
2. Choose
Security
in the left-hand list.
3. In the Appearance panel, choose
New
.
Figure 41 Signature appearance: New button
4. Configure the signature appearance options:
Title
: Any arbitrary title used to identify the appearance.
Set the graphic options in the Graphic panel
No graphic
: No graphic is used.
Imported graphic
: Choose
File > Browse
, select a file and choose
OK
.
Name
: Your text name will appear instead of a graphic. The name is extracted from the signing
certificate.
Note:
By default, the signature watermark is the Adobe PDF logo but it can be customized. To
avoid obscuring a background, use line art with a transparent background.