When you’ve completed your signature placement, the Certify Document dialog appears (or the Sign Document dialog if you’ve elected the Place Signature option instead). In the W-9 form, click-and-drag to create a digital signature area on the right side of the signing area on page 1 of the W-9 form. If possible, choose an area with enough white space to allow your digital signature image and its related copy to be clearly visible. Once you’ve selected your signing tool, zoom in on the area where you’d like to place your digital signature. This isn’t necessary for this example of signing our W-9 form however, having and using a third-party digital ID may be useful if you’re distributing signed documents to a group of people who may not know you personally. This will take you to a Digital ID website where you can acquire a third-party digital ID. Read it, and if decide if you’d like to Get Digital ID from Adobe Partner, click this button. If you’ve selected Certify with Visible Signature, the Save as Certified Document dialog appears. If you choose the Without Visible Signature option, your signature will still be present and viewable in the Signature panel (see Step 13), but there will be no visible signature on the actual document. The difference is that the Certify option allows you to use a third-party Adobe Digital ID (see Step 8), and also lets you control/prevent any changes from occurring to the document after you’ve signed and certified the document. Click OK twice to close these dialogs.Ĭlick on the Sign tool and choose Certify with Visible Signature. These fields will then appear in your digital signature dialog when you sign a document. As you can see, we opted to turn on all options. Now click the Creation tab and read the options. Read through to see your Verification options (we used the default values). In the Digital Signatures dialog showing the list of your two newly created digital signatures, click Advanced Preferences. STEP 6 Assign Advanced Digital Signature Preferences Now you have a choice of using either an image or a text-only signature when you digitally “sign” your PDF documents. In the Configure Signature Appearance dialog, change the Title to: “ Text Signature,” change the Configure Graphic option to No Graphic, and then click OK to create your second signature. Select the copy of the signature and click the Edit button. STEP 5 Create a Text-Only Digital Signatureīack in the Digital Signatures dialog, click the Duplicate button to duplicate the image-based signature you just created. Now click the Import Graphic from File button, locate the PDF image you created in Step 3, and click OK. Click on the New button to open the Configure Signature Appearance dialog and fill in the Title field with your name followed by “Image Signature.” In the Configure Graphic section, check the Imported Graphic button and under Configure Text, click on all fields. STEP 4 Assign Graphic to Digital SignatureĬhoose Acrobat>Application>Preferences (PC: Edit>Preferences) and scroll down to Security to access the Digital Signatures dialog. A zoomed-in headshot is appropriate for use here because the image will appear in a small area onscreen (and in a printout). It should be approximately 150×200 pixels at 100 ppi (high quality). You can use a graphic image along with your digital signature, so select an image you’d like to use as your PDF signature image. STEP 3 Create Image for Digital Signature Note: You can view all the form fields by simply activating the Tools>Advanced Editing>Select Object tool. The W-9 is an interactive PDF form, so all you need do is click in the Name field to begin typing in the appropriate information. If like me, you hate paperwork, you’ll love this method of distributing these forms and may find many similar ways to use your digital signature.ĭownload the W-9 form from Open this form in Acrobat 8. Here’s how to create, customize, and use a digitally signed PDF to submit W-9 Federal tax forms to all your paying clients. Creating and using digitally signed PDFs saves the time, energy, and expense of sending signed documents back and forth-and many people can sign the same document. Digitally signed PDFs are considered just as valid as manually signed originals by most companies and government agencies. Creating and distributing documents that require signatures is one of many timesaving uses for PDF files.
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