Document Behavior After Signing - Adobe 22002486 User Manual

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7.6 Document Behavior After Signing

A document's behavior will likely change after it has been signed. Some of it's content may not work
(multimedia may not play), some of the application's menu items may be disabled so that you can't use
them, and so on. How a document behaves on your desktop could be the result of one or more factors:
How the document was authored. Were restrictions or requirements placed on the signature fields?
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How a document was signed. Was an approval or certification signature used? Did the signer place
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restrictions placed on future permissible actions?
How is your environment configured? Have you trusted the signer's certificate for certain actions? Do
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you use preview mode?
Note:
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These items interact in complex ways. In many cases, it's better to accept the application defaults
unless instructed to change them by someone knowledgeable about Acrobat's security features.
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