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Disable locking of document after digitally signing

Jun 25, 2012 1:24 PM

Tags: #security #signature #digital_signature #acrobat_x_pro #sign #signatures

Good Afternoon,

 

We have just recently upgraded from Acrobat v7 Standard to Acrobat X Professional.

 

With Acrobat 7 several users would pass around a PDF document for each user to sign and to add attachments to it. Now that we have upgraded to Acrobat X this is not possible. As after the first person signs the pdf with their signature the whole PDF document locks.

 

Please advise if there is a way to disable the locking, as the PDF document needs to stay unlocked for others to sign and attach spreadsheets to it.

 

Please let me know if you require anything further.

 

Kind Regards,

K

 
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    Jun 25, 2012 1:55 PM   in reply to krs242

    It is certainly possible. Read the Help doc and verify that:

     

    • You are using approval sigs and not accidentally certifying the doc with the first signature.
    • If you want to use a certification signature, then have the signer set permissions to allow signing sig fields.

     

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    Jun 26, 2012 1:35 PM   in reply to krs242

    Fields do not automatically lock. You are doing something specific to make them lock. You are either certifying the doc and not allowing subsequent signatures, using seed values, or locking the field via properties.

     

    Try creating a blank document with two signature fields and test it out.

     

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    Jun 26, 2012 3:55 PM   in reply to krs242

    Yes, I was thrown by your use of "the whole PDF document locks" and "unlocked for others to sign". The whole document does not lock. However, you cannot add attachments to a signed doc since version 9. The feature is designed to allow you to sign both the doc and the attachment so that you can verify its origin and integrity.

     

    If you want a signature workflow that allows adding attachments, use Portfolios. You can sign any doc in a Portfolio and add as many additional docs to it as needed without affecting the signed documents.

     

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