PDF documents offer a better possibility to be shared by email; This is due to the fact that the weight of this type of file is much less than that which could have the same amount of information but which has been prepared with Microsoft Word.
The free version of Adobe Acrobat offers us an additional function that you won't find it in the native Windows 8.1 function, because in this operating system you can have a PDF document from the same Microsoft office Suite as well as, as a native tool that theoretically should help us to be able to make an edition in this type of files. If you use the version that is downloaded from the official Adobe site, below we will indicate a little trick that will help you place a signature on each of your PDF documents.
Download and install Adobe Acrobat on Windows
If you still do not have this tool installed on your Windows computer, we recommend that you go to the official Adobe website for you to download; It is not necessary to have to look for a professional or paid version but rather, to the free version of Acrobat. The moment you get ready to download this tool, the website will propose other additional tools, which you can skip if you don't need them; one of them is the McAfee antivirus, which you may not require on your computer at the moment.
If you do not require this antivirus we recommend that you deactivate the box that is proposed under the heading of "Optional Offer"; after having done this, you have to go to the right side to select the yellow button that says "install now"; you just have to wait some time for it to download and then install Adobe Acrobat on your operating system.
Place a digital signature on PDF documents with Adobe Acrobat
Once you have Adobe Acrobat installed, you must proceed with the next step, that is, with its execution. We do not mean that you have to double-click this tool but rather, to have to search for any of the PDF documents in which you want to place a digital signature.
Once you have your PDF document open, it may be good idea that you go towards the final part of it, because that is the place where any type of signature is usually placed. At the top (and to the right side) you will find 3 additional options, choosing the one that says «Authors«.
A series of options will appear at the bottom, having to choose for the moment the one that says "Place signature"; here the process could fail for those who have previously used a signature without realizing it, which is why you must click on the small drop-down arrow (pointing downwards) to choose the option «change saved signature«.
The window that will now appear will help us to place the signature under different modalities; If we have a good pulse and in the best of cases, a digital tablet where we can draw the signature correctly, the option we must choose is the one that suggests «draw my signature«.
At the bottom there is a blank space, where we must begin to draw the signature that we want to be part of our PDF documents and specifically, the one that we have opened at this time. After finishing drawing our signature, we only have to click on the button that says «Accept»So that the window closes and the signature appears on the PDF document that we have opened.
We will only have to locate the firm in the place that we want and also, resize it using the different vertices of the "object"; With these simple steps you will have the opportunity to place a digital signature on any of your PDF documents. If we had to give an additional recommendation, we would say that a better alternative is found in the digitization of our signature. This means that our signature could be drawn on white paper, digitized onto our computer and later placed in the PDF documents using the option suggested «use an image«.
It is also worth mentioning that certain institutions (especially financial, banking or government) do not accept a digital signature as part of a specific document; For this reason, it will always be convenient to try to consult the interested party, whether or not we can send the document with a digital signature as we have suggested in this tutorial.