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Certificate Services Support Plug in your USB . In the Adobe Acrobat/Reader ribbon, select the Tools tab. Scroll down to the Certificates tool and click Open. On the ribbon that now appears at the top of the page, you will be presented with options to Digitally Sign or Certify (Visible Signature).

During the certification of a document, you are still using a digital signature to guarantee the integrity of the document. However, you are also adding additional restriction on the document preventing further action on it.

As the author of a document, when you certify it, you attest to its contents and control what (if anything) can be done to it while retaining its certified status. If changes occur to the document that you have not permitted, then the document is invalidated and the certification is revoked.

For Verification, click More. To automatically validate all signatures in a PDF when you open the document, select Verify Signatures When The Document Is Opened. This option is selected by default. Select verification options as needed and click OK.

How to add a digital signature to a PDF document with Adobe Acrobat Open your document in Adobe Acrobat. Click the Tools tab and scroll down to the Forms and Certificates section. ... Click on Digitally Sign from the new options bar. Select the digital signature you want to use and click Continue.

To do so, open the document in Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Reader. Click the Signature Panel icon then click ?Validate All? then ?OK?. The software will run a validation check to see if the digital certificate used to sign the document is valid.

Adobe Reader does let you sign PDFs and incorporate that signature into the file. If you are viewing a PDF on the web, download the PDF first before you sign it. Some documents have security applied that prohibits electronic signatures. Print such documents and then sign the printed copy.