Acrobat 9 Family of Products
Signing Documents
Security Feature User Guide
Signing Documents in Acrobat 97
To sign a document with an approval signature:
1. Initiate the approval signing process by doing one of the following:
Sign an existing field:
Click on a signature field.
Right click on a signature field and choose
Sign Document
(
Figure 67
).
2. Sign a new field by choosing
Advanced > Sign & Certify
and then selecting
Approval
.
Tip:
Certification signature menu items are disabled if the document has already been signed.
Figure 67 Signature field sign menu
3. (
Optional
): If your application is configured to automatically enter preview mode during signing (the
recommended setting), do the following:
1. Review the text in the Document Message Bar at the top of the document.
2. Choose
View Report
to invoke the PDF Signature Report dialog. Acrobat checks to see if the
document contains dynamic content that could adversely impact the integrity of the document. In
general:
If no errors are listed, the document can always be signed.
If only errors with a green check appear, then the document contains rich content that can be
suppressed in preview mode. These documents can be signed safely in preview mode.
If any error with a red X appears, then the document contains rich content that can not be
suppressed in preview mode. The document should not be signed by signers who are
concerned that such content may affect how the document appears to the signer or document
recipient.
3. Review the warnings and decide whether the document is OK to sign. Choose
Close
when done.
4. Choose
Sign Document
.