Signatures in a form

[Former Community Member]

Hi,

I am recreating all of our forms into Active forms using Livecycle Designer 8.2 and the majority of our forms, that go out to a very large number of stakeholders, require a signature by one or more persons. I am wondering if anyone has come across a secure, effective, legal, user friendly way to add a signature to the form?

I have not been able to find out alot of information on sigantures so any pointers will help or tips on where to find information.

Thank you.

Jennah

[Former Community Member]

Jennah

I'm not sure I fully understand your question.  Are you looking to add signatures in an automated fasion in an ad hoc fasion, or did you want to design the forms with signature fields already on the PDF form?

Assuming you are using LiveCycle Designer to create the forms, you can ad signature field(s) to the form when you create the forms.  When a user clicks on the signature field, they will be prompted to select a digital certificate to sign the form with.  Note that if the end users only have Reader, the form will need to be Reader Extended (to enable the ability to sign a PDF with reader)

There are other third party methods to sign PDF documents such as CIC's SignIt.

here are some links that may be of use:

http://www.adobe.com/security/

http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/security/index_security_partners.html

http://www.adobe.com/security/digsig.html

Regards

Steve