By Cynthia, 7 December, 2025

You can set the appearance of your digital signature by selecting different options in Configure Signature Style dialog box. For example, a signature can include an image of your handwritten signature, a company logo, or a photo, date, reasons for signing, and so on.

By Cynthia, 7 December, 2025

You can move, resize and delete signatures before signing the document, but you aren’t allowed to change certificate and appearance of certificate.

  1. To move a signature

Select the Select Annotation command or the corresponding tool, put the pointer over the signature, click and drag the signature to another place you like.

By Cynthia, 7 December, 2025

Before you sign a document, you need to draw a signature field where the signature is placed, get a digital ID, and create the signature.

By Cynthia, 7 December, 2025

Digital ID is the identity of a person/organization, which contains your name, Email address, a serial number, an expiration date, and the name of the company. A digital ID contains two keys, one is a public key (certificate) that is used to encrypt or lock data, and the other is a private key that is used to decrypt or unlock data that is encrypted.

By Cynthia, 7 December, 2025

Quick PDF Sign enables you to create your self-signed signatures (ink signatures) and add the signature to the page directly. You don’t need to create different signatures for different roles.

To create your own handwritten signature and sign a PDF, follow these steps.

By Cynthia, 7 December, 2025
  1. Click Manage Signatures in the Foxit eSign tab.
  2. In the Manage Signatures dialog box, do any of the following: 
  • Click Add to create signatures and initials.
  • Click the Edit or Delete
By Cynthia, 7 December, 2025
  1. Open the document you want to sign. 
  2. (Optional) Use the tools in the Foxit eSign tab to add text or symbols to fill your PDF as needed. 
  3. Click the sign on the signature palette (or click
By Cynthia, 7 December, 2025

Foxit PDF Editor integrates with Foxit eSign, a legally-binding electronic signature service. With a licensed account, you can perform an eSign workflow not only on the Foxit eSign website using a web browser but also within Foxit PDF Editor directly, which allows you to edit your documents and collect signatures with complete ease.

By Cynthia, 7 December, 2025

The certificates in Foxit Approved Trust Lists (FATL) and European Union Trusted Lists (EUTL) are the trusted root certificates that are stored in a Foxit server and have been verified by Foxit and other authorities. You can enable the application to automatically check and download new or updated root certificates in FATL or EUTL from the server to local trusted certificate list. Any certificate-based signature created with the certificate in FATL or EUTL is trusted when the signed document is opened in Foxit PDF Editor.