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:

• 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 [@] saintpaul.edu Adobe Account, not your Minn State email or Star ID. 
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  • 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.
  • If you have an Adobe account but need to create a digital signature, read these instructions
• In your PDF document, navigate to the appropriate signature box and click on it.
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• A box titled "Sign with a Digital ID" will pop up, be sure to select your Digital ID, not your Star ID and click 'Continue'

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• On the next pop-up, click 'sign' to sign it, you may be prompted to enter your Adobe Digital ID password

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• Lastly, please Save your document to make sure the signature doesn't disappear

Summary:

How to add digital signatures to Adobe PDF documents. 

For more Help

1. How to Create a Digital ID
2. Managing Digital IDs (external)