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USING ACROBAT 9 PRO EXTENDED
Getting started
To create an appearance, choose Edit > Preferences (Windows) or Acrobat > Preferences (Mac OS). Select Security
on the left, and then click New in the Digital Signatures section. Give the signature appearance a short, descriptive
title that you'll recognize when you're signing a document. Select options, including whether you want to include
an imported graphic, such as a scanned signature. As you make changes, your edited signature appears in the
preview window. Click OK.
Use Security preferences to customize how your signature appears.
If you selected Reason, click Advanced Preferences, and, in the Creation pane, select Show Reasons When Signing.
If you selected Location, select Show Location And Contact Information When Signing.
3 Review the document carefully.
Before you sign any document, physically or electronically, make sure that you know what you are signing and
where all the signature fields are. Because dynamic content might alter the appearance of the PDF and mislead you,
view the document in Preview Document mode before signing. To use Preview Document mode, open the
Preferences dialog box and select Security on the left; then, select View Documents In Preview Document Mode
When Signing.
Check each page of a document for signature fields. You may need to sign a document in more than one place. Each
signature field is unique, so your signature won't automatically be copied from one field to the other signature fields
in the document.
Sign the PDF.
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To sign the document, click the signature field. If no signature field exists, choose Sign > Place Signature from the
Tasks toolbar and draw a signature field on the page.
If you've set Acrobat to display documents in Preview Document mode before signing, a document message bar
reports whether any dynamic content exists in the document. When you've reviewed the document, click Sign
Document in the document message bar to proceed.
Last updated 9/30/2011
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