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title: Sign a Document
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createdAt: 2025-04-22T18:10:03.435Z
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PDF Pro does include a Digital Signature feature that allows you to create, save, and place signatures within PDF documents. Signatures can be created by drawing your signature, typing it using the keyboard, pasting it from the clipboard, or importing an existing image file.
Once saved, signatures can be quickly reused across multiple documents for consistent signing. However, this feature is intended for adding signatures to PDF documents and does not provide the electronic signing workflow, document routing, authentication, or tracking capabilities offered by dedicated eSignature platforms.
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PDF Pro does not currently support eSignature workflows such as those provided by dedicated electronic signing services like DocuSign or PandaDoc. Features such as sending documents for signature, signer authentication, signature tracking, audit trails, and cloud-based signing processes are not available.
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## How to create a digital signature
Under the **SECURE** tab, click **Sign PDF.**
The **SIGNATURE SETTINGS** menu choices will be displayed. The first step is to create a signature. Click on the Green **+** or from the pulldown menu **Create Signature** as shown below.
### Draw a Signature
You can now create a new signature, type in letters, paste from a clipboard image or import a previous one. For a new signature, click **Draw Signature** to open the signature box, use your mouse to draw your signature, then click **OK**.
When happy with the signature, press **Save** to add it to the Signature tray
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### Import or Clipboard paste
You can also use **Import File **to add a signature image, or **Paste from Clipboard** to insert one you've copied. When satisfied with the signature, click **Save**.
### Type a Signature
Another method that is available is the **Type Signature**. Here you can use the keyboard to select the letters and the font type, color and size to have a clearer version of a signature.
When happy with the signature, press **Save** to add it to the Signature tray
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The final result appears as shown below:
## How to Manage digital signatures
If a digital signature has been created and saved in PDF Pro, it will show up in the **SIGNATURE SETTINGS** tab. To manage the signatures, select the **Manage Signatures** from the pulldown menu choice.
This will open the **Manage Signature Dialog** box. Here you can create, edit or delete existing signatures.
## How to add a digital signature to a PDF
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**NOTE\:** **Once a signature is applied, it cannot be selected or edited later. **To remove it, you must press **Ctrl + Z** immediately after applying it—before making any other changes to the PDF. **After additional edits, the signature cannot be undone.**
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If a digital signature has been created and saved in PDF Pro, it will show up in the **SIGNATURE SETTINGS** tab.
To use the signature, left-click your signature once.
Then click on the PDF where you'd like to place the signature.
If you do not want to use the selected signature, click **Reject Unsigned Signatures** or the ❌. This will remove the signature from the PDF page.
To use the selected signature, select **Apply all Signatures** or ✅.
The final result appears as shown below:
