How can you digitally sign PDF documents in Windows 10 easily?
Companies have started converting more and more official papers to PDF documents recently, even before offices were closed due to the spread of the Coronavirus. These days, dealing with paper documents has become an exception rather than a rule, but even digital documents need an official signature, and although you can do this by printing, signing and scanning them again, you can save a lot of effort and time by creating a digital signature and placing it directly. In the document.
But Windows 10 does not offer a built-in feature that allows you to digitally sign PDF documents as easily as it is in the Mac OS, but there are external applications that you can install on your computer to give you the same ability and the most famous of these applications is the application (Reader DC) from Adobe.
But how can you use the Reader DC application to easily create a digital signature for PDF documents in Windows 10:
- Download the Adobe Acrobat Reader DC application, and then install it on your computer.
- After completing the installation, open the application and then in the main window press the option (fill and sign) Fill & Sign.
- Click on the Select a File option at the top to choose a PDF document to work with.
- After selecting the document, click on the Sign icon at the top.
- From the pop-up menu that appears, click on the Add Signature option.
- A pop-up window will appear that contains three options to add the signature, which are: writing your name and then choosing one of the included handwritten fonts, or drawing the signature as you usually do on official papers if you use a touch screen, or uploading a picture for your signature.
- After creating the signature in any way it deems appropriate, make sure to select the option (save signature) Save signature if you want to use it in the future, then press (Apply) Apply.
- You will see the previous window that contains the document where you can place your new signature at the place you want on the document, then right-click the signature to change its size or position if you wish.
- Now, if you want to add your signature to another PDF document, just open it using the Adobe Acrobat Reader app, then click on the Sign icon and choose your signature that you saved earlier.
