Article Type: How To

Response:

• Some College processes and procedures, such as submitting documents to the Academic Affairs and Standards Council (AASC) might require you to add a timestamped Adobe Digital ID signature to your PDF. Remember, once you sign it you should not make any further changes to the PDF document.

Steps:

• Open the PDF you would like to sign
• Make sure you are signed into Adobe Acrobat or Reader by clicking on the circle in the upper-right hand corner. You may sign in with your firstname.lastname [at] saintpaul.edu Adobe Account, not your Minn State email or Star ID.
  1. If you need to create an Adobe account, please put in a ticket to the IT help desk as soon as possible with the reason for requesting the account listed as your need to edit PDFs.
• Click on the signature box you need to sign, it usually has a red box or small red flag on or around it
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• Click on Configure New Digital ID 
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• Select Create a new Digital ID, then Continue

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• Select Save to File, then Continue

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• Enter your name, department, and Saint Paul College email, then continue

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• Enter a password, confirm it, and then click save. Please write down this password and you will need it to sign!

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• You may now use your new Digital ID to sign th edocument 

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• Enter your password and click sign

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• Save the PDF

Summary:

• Creating time stamped Adobe Digital signatures. 

For More Help

1. Managing Digital IDs (external)