User manual

Changing signature appearance
You can specify how your signature appears in the signature field. For example, you can
include an image of your company logo. When you use an SVG image in a signature, only
the image is used, not the white space around it. The image is cropped and scaled to fit in
the signature field.
Note: To use a signature appearance that you've created, you choose it during the last step
of signing the document. (See Signing Adobe PDF documents in Acrobat.)
To create a new signature appearance:
1. If you want to include an image (such as a scanned signature or logo) in your signature,
create or import an image from any authoring application, place the image on a page by
itself, and convert the file to PDF.
2. Choose Edit > Preferences (Windows) or Acrobat (Mac OS) > Preferences, and select
Security on the left.
3. Click New.
4. In the Configure Signature Appearance dialog box, type a title for the signature
appearance. When you sign a document, you select the signature by its title, so use a short
title that accurately describes the signature.
5. Select one of the following in the Configure Graphic section to define the signature's
appearance:
● No Graphic displays only the default digital signature icon and other information specified
by the Configure Text options.
● Imported Graphic displays a graphic signature that you specify. Click the File button,
click the Browse button, choose the graphic file type from the Files Of Type menu, select
a graphic, click Select and then click OK (Windows) or Select (Mac OS).
Note: The Palm Organizer button is unavailable unless Palm OS® appearance files are
detected. (See Setting up Palm OS appearance files.)
● Name displays only the default digital signature icon and your name as it appears in your
digital ID file.
6. In the Configure Text section, select any text items you want to appear in the signature.
Distinguished Name shows the user attributes defined in your Digital ID, including your
name, organization, and country.
To edit or delete a signature appearance:
1. In the Preferences dialog box, select Security on the left.
2. Do one of the following:
● To edit a signature appearance, select its title in the Appearance box, and then click Edit.
● To delete a signature appearance, select its title in the Appearance box, and then click
Delete.