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5 The affirmative action clause and regulations contained in the preceding sentence shall be incorporated by reference. 3 Contents1 Getting Started .. What s changed with .. What s changed with .. Other resources .. 92 Authoring Signable Best Practices for Signed Documents that will Change .. Setting up the Signing Setting Signing Preferences .. Requiring Preview Changing the Default Signing Method .. Embedding Signature Revocation Status .. Allowing Signing Reason .. Showing Location and Contact Details .. Enabling Document Warning Review .. Requiring Document Warning Review Prior to Signing .. Enabling a Warnings Comment or Legal Attestation.

6 Signature Appearance Configuration .. Custom Signature Custom Watermark and Backgrounds .. Editing or Deleting a Signature Appearance .. Timestamps for Signing .. Working with Signature Fields .. Creating a Blank Signature Field .. Specifying General Field Customizing Field Appearances .. Changing the Default Field Appearance .. Cut, Copy, and Paste Signature Arranging Signature Fields .. Creating Multiple Copies of a Signature Field .. Authoring Signable Forms .. Authoring a Document with Multiple Fields .. Locking Fields Automatically After Signing .. Making a Field a Required Part of a Workflow .. Specifying a Post-Signing Unlocking a Field Locked by a Signatures .

7 Signature Validity Basics .. What Makes a Signature Valid?.. Authenticity Verification .. Document Integrity Setting up Your Environment for Signature Validation .. Validating Signatures Automatically .. Validation Method, Revocation Checking, and Time Signatures Guide Using Root Certificates in the Windows Certificate Validating Signatures with Timestamps and Certificate Policies .. Validating Signatures Manually .. Validating Signatures .. Validating a Problematic Signature (trusting a signer on-the-fly) .. Validating Signatures for other Document Versions .. Validating Signature Timestamps .. When Timestamps Can t be Verified.

8 Status Icons and Their Meaning .. Signature Status Definitions .. Document Status Definitions .. Troubleshooting a Signature or Document Status .. Troubleshooting an Identity Problem .. Troubleshooting Digital ID Certificates .. Displaying the Signer s Verifying the Identity of Self-Signed Certificates .. Checking Certificate Revocation Exporting a Certificate Other than Yours to a File .. Troubleshooting a Document Integrity Problem .. LiveCycle Dynamic Forms and the Warning Viewing and Comparing Changes and Versions .. Viewing a List of Post-Signing Modifications .. Comparing a Signed Version to the Current Version.

9 Document Behavior After Signing .. JavaScript and Dynamic Content Won t Run .. Certifying a Document is Form Field Fill in, Signing, and/or Other Actions Don t Work ..574 Document Integrity and Preview Mode .. Preview Mode and Signing Workflows .. Preview Mode and Validation (View Signed Version) .. PDF Signature Reports .. Signature Report Error Codes .. 615 Customizing Signature Appearances .. Customizing a Signature Changing the Logo (Watermark or Background) .. Creating Appearances from Handwritten Signatures .. 686 Controlling Signing with Seed Values .. Seed Value Changes Across Releases .. Supported Seed Values.

10 Enabling JavaScript to Set Seed Values .. Forcing a Certification Signature .. Giving Signers the Option to Lock a Document .. Forcing Signers to Use a Specific Signature Appearance .. Adding Custom Signing Specifying Timestamps for Specifying Alternate Signature Handlers and Formats .. Specifying a Signature Hash Algorithm .. 82 acrobat Signatures Guide Embedding Revocation Information in a Signature .. Specifying Certificate Properties for Signing .. Specifying Signing Certificates Origin .. Specifying Certificates by Key Usage .. Specifying Certificates by Policy .. Specifying a URL When a Valid Certificate is not Found.