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Adobe Acrobat Ninja

By : Urszula Witherell
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Adobe Acrobat Ninja

By: Urszula Witherell

Overview of this book

Adobe Acrobat can help you solve a wide variety of problems that crop up when you work with PDF documents on a daily basis. The most common file type for business and communication, this compact portable document format is widely used to collect as well as present information, as well as being equipped with many lesser-known features that can keep your content secure while making it easy to share. From archive features that will keep your documents available for years to come to features related to accessibility, organizing, annotating, editing, and whatever else you use PDFs for, Acrobat has the answer if you know where to look. Designed for professionals who likely already use Adobe Acrobat Pro, this guide introduces many ideas, features, and online services, sorted and organized for you to easily find the topics relevant to your work and requirements. You can jump to any chapter without sifting through prior pages to explore the tools and functions explained through step-by-step instructions and examples. The information in some chapters may build on existing knowledge, but you are not expected to have an advanced level of prior experience. By the end of this book, you’ll have gained a solid understanding of the many capabilities of PDFs and how Acrobat makes it possible to work in a way that you will never miss good old ink and paper.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

Signing a document

In the context of our example, signing documents within a group where people know one another depends on an interactive signature field. Field(s) can be prepared ahead of time before a document is filled out, or a signature area can be drawn at the time of signing and the position will be determined by the signer.

Placing a signature field on a page

Creating a field that will accept a digital signature allows you, the document owner, to specify the signature location. Most often, it is placed in interactive forms using the Prepare Form tool. Specific steps and the meaning of choices were discussed in the Digital signature field properties section of Chapter 7. The process of placing the field on a page was shown in Figure 7.13 – Signature field in the making.

First, let’s create a new signature field. Here are the steps:

  1. Select the Prepare Form tool. If a document selection page appears, the This document requires signatures option...