Nitro PDF Professional User Guide

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Note: To digitally sign a document, you must have a digital ID. Learn about digital IDs or how
to create digital IDs.
11.1.1 Customizing signature appearance
Your digital signatures can be easily customized to make just the information you want to share visible and
used to display your physical signature, a corporate logo, or whatever other graphic you'd like to appear
alongside your signature. You can edit the appearance of your signature at the time of signing a document,
or at any time by heading to the preferences.
To customize a signature's appearance during signing
1. Do one of the following:
· On the Secure and Sign tab, click Sign and then click on the page to place your signature
· Click on a digital signature field that is already on the page
2. Click Continue Signing
3. Select the digital ID to use and click Next
4. Do one of the following:
· To choose an existing signature, select it from the Use this signature appearance list
· Click New and create and save a new signature appearance
5. Click Finish
To edit the appearance of a digital signature
1. Click the Nitro PDF Button , click Nitro PDF Preferences, and then click Security
2. In the Signature appearances list, select the signature and then click Edit
3. Choose the text-based information to appear with your signature
4. To add a graphic, click Graphic from file, select the file, and then click OK
5. Click OK
To create a new digital signature appearance
1. Click the Nitro PDF Button , click Nitro PDF Preferences, and then click Security
2. Click New
3. Name your signature appearance
4. Choose the text-based information to appear with your signature.
5. To add a graphic, click Graphic from file, select the file, and then click OK
6. Click OK
Using handwritten signatures
To make your physical signature appear in your digital signature, it's just a matter using a scanner to make
a digitized copy of it and then following the step above to set up a new digital signature appearance. You
can digitize your signature using just about any scanner and the software that comes with it, or if you like
use Nitro Pro's Create PDF From Scanner feature -- the instructions below show you how to do it with
this way.
1. Sign a piece of paper and place it onto your scanner
2. Open Nitro PDF Professional
3. On the Home tab, in the Convert group, click the arrow below Create PDF .
4. Click Create PDF From Scanner .
5. In the Create PDF From Scanner dialog, select your scanner and then specify the destination.
6. Click Scan to open your default scanning software.
7. Select the mode of scanning—color, grayscale, or monochrome/black-and-white.
8. Select the menu command to return to Nitro PDF Professional.