A visible signature shows your signature on the page and signs the document digitally at the same time. To put your signature on the page without a certificate, see "Add your signature".
Steps
- In the rail, choose Protect, then Signature & Certificate in the Signatures group.
- Drag a box where the signature should appear.
- In How the signature looks, choose:
- Type it, then type your Signature and pick a Style; each style in the list shows your name in it, and the large preview shows it as it will be placed;
- Draw it, then draw in Draw your signature here (Clear starts again);
- Use a picture of it; you will pick a PNG or JPEG, or a scanned PDF of your signature, first;
- Use one of my signatures, then pick one you kept earlier.
- Fill in the rest as in "Sign a document digitally", and choose Choose certificate and sign.
Which signature do I need?
- Signature & Certificate (Protect): your signature shown on the page, and a digital signature from your certificate.
- Sign with Certificate (Protect): the digital signature alone, with no mark on the page. See "Sign a document digitally".
- Signature (Comment): only a picture of your signature. It is not a digital signature; no certificate is used.
Good to know
- You still need a certificate file (.p12 or .pfx).
- The signature appears upright even on turned pages.
- There are fifteen styles, most of them handwriting. If a style cannot write a letter of your name, Monstera names the letter, and the list marks each style that cannot. The styles write Latin letters, and some write Cyrillic and Greek too; a name in Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese or Korean can be drawn or used as a picture.
- A typed signature is drawn into the document as the shapes of its letters, so no font file is added to it.
- To use a signature again next time, tick Keep this signature for next time when you type or draw it. It is kept once the document is signed.
- Under Use one of my signatures, Add a picture… keeps a picture of your signature, and Remove takes one away. Kept signatures stay on this computer, and up to 16 are kept. Signatures saved with Signature appear here too.
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