Customize the appearance of a certificate-based signature - User Manuals

Right PDF Pro (Windows)

Welcome to Right PDF Pro
- About this User Manual
Chapter 1: Getting started
- Download and installation
- License activation
- License Deactivation
- Updates, upgrades and maintenance
Chapter 2: Workspace
- Workspace basics
- Customize the user interface
  - The Quick Access Toolbar
  - Customize Ribbon and Sidebar Navigation Pane
- Navigate PDF pages
Chapter 3: Viewing PDFs
Chapter 4: Creating PDFs
Chapter 5: Editing PDFs
Chapter 6: Commenting and Sharing PDFs
Chapter 7: Document Assembly
- Manipulating, splitting and renumbering PDF pages
- Page Thumbnails
- Combine all PDF files
- Navigate a PDF using bookmarks
- PDF tags
- PDF layers
- Insert headers and footers, and Bates numbering to PDFs
- Add watermarks to PDFs
- Imposition
- Links in PDFs
- Batch Processing
Chapter 8: Forms
Chapter 9: Security
- Choosing a security method of PDFs
- Securing PDFs with passwords
- Securing PDFs with certificates
- Remove encryption settings
- Security schemes
- Manage Digital IDs
- Manage trusted identities
- Certificate signatures & Digital signatures
- Validate digital signatures
- Send PDF documents with secure delivery
- Envelope panel
- Microsoft Azure Information Protection (AIP)
- Removing sensitive data from PDFs
Chapter 10: Saving and exporting PDFs
- Saving and exporting PDFs
- Save a PDF file
- Export PDFs to MS Office, images, and text formats (within Right PDF Editor)
- Convert PDFs to MS Office, images, and text formats with Right PDF Converter in batch
- Reusing PDF content
- Reduce PDF file size
- Flatten documents
Chapter 11: Multimedia and 3D models
Chapter 12: Searching and indexing
- Searching PDFs
- Indexing PDFs
  - Create and manage an index in PDF
  - Create a full text index

You can determine the look of your certificate-based signature by specifying graphic, text configuration, and text properties using options in the Configure Signature Appearance dialog box. For example, you can make the information visible and decide whether to include an image of your handwritten signature or your company logo. You can create looks for different purposes and select a look for a specified digital ID.

In Right PDF Editor, do any of the following to open the Preferences dialog box:
- Click the Document Properties/Preference shortcut button and then select Preferences.
- Choose File > Preferences.
In the Preferences dialog box, click Signatures and in the Creation & Appearance section, click More….
In the Creation and Appearance Preferences dialog box, do the following:

Creation. Decide whether to make it compatible with Adobe Acrobat and then set the text fields to display when signing. The selected fields are displayed in the Sign Document dialog box when attempting to sign.
Appearance. Set the graphic options and the text fields to display in the appearance. Click New… and name the appearance by adding a title used to identify the appearance, and then set graphic options, text fields to display and text direction in the following sections:

- Configure Graphic. Choose to show nothing, an image, or the signer’s name from the certificate. If you want to display nothing in your signature, select No graphic; otherwise, select Imported graphic to show an image in the appearance. Click File… and browse to a file to be used as the image and click OK.
- Configure Text. Decide what to display in the appearance:
  - Name. The name associated with the certificate used to sign it.
  - Location. The location associated with the identity configured in Right PDF.
  - Distinguishing Name. A name with identifiable information such as country, organization, organization unit, and so on.
  - Labels. A label for each of the items above. For example, Digitally signed by, Location, Date, etc.
  - Date. The date the file is signed. It displays local computer time.
  - Reason. Reasons for signing.
  - Logo. Display Right PDF logo on the background of the signature.
- Text Properties. Choose a direction (Left to right/Right to left) that is appropriate for the signer’s language.

A. Graphic signature B. Text signature

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