Adobe eSignatures – Create your Own Digital Signature & Sign PDF Documents

If you think that digital signatures are meant only for the corporate world, then you are wrong. Anyone can have a Digital Signature that can come handy anytime for signing important documents especially the government ID’s. Previously, it was not so easy to obtain and create a digital signature, but with the help of Adobe e-Signatures, you can easily get digital signatures in the pdf documents.

What is a Digital Signature?

According to Wikipedia, A digital signature is a mathematical scheme for demonstrating the authenticity of digital messages or documents. A valid digital signature gives a recipient reason to believe that the message was created by a known sender (authentication), that the sender cannot deny having sent the message (non-repudiation), and that the message was not altered in transit (integrity).

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How to Add Digital Signatures for pdf documents with Adobe signatures?

Step 1

Open the Adobe Reader and click edit and then preferences as shown below. If you don’t have an adobe reader Installed on your PC, you can download it from adobe.com

Step 2

Now click on signatures from categories menu on the left and then click more next to the “Identities and trusted certificates”.

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Step 3

Click “OK” and then “Add id” as shown below.

Step 4

Select “A new digital id I want to create” and then next.

Step 5

Select “New PKCS#12 Digital id file” and then next.

Step 6

Mention all the particulars as specified. Do not change the country, key algorithm and use digital id for and then click next.

Step 7

Create a password for your digital signature and remember it as there is no option available to recover this password if forgotten.

Step 8

As soon as you click finish the following screen appears.

Now you can use your digital signature created in the Adobe PDF Files.

• To sign a file click signup, enter your sign in details and click Sign. Your signature will be inserted in the document.

In this way, you can insert and use the digital signature in your pdf documents easily that was created by you.

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