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.
- Choose Home/Protect > Fill & Sign. And the Fill & Sign context tab appears on the ribbon.
- (Optional) Use the tools in the Fill & Sign context tab to add text or symbols to fill your PDF as needed.
- Click
in the signature palette on the ribbon or click 
on the lower right corner of the signature palette and choose Create Signature from the drop-down menu. Or you can click Manage Signatures in the Fill & Sign context tab and click Add in the pop-up Manage Signatures dialog box to create signatures. - In the Create Signature dialog box, you can draw a signature, import a file, copy from the clipboard, or type text content to create a signature. Or, click Online to choose a signature from the online signatures you saved before. When you create a signature by typing text or drawing, you can change the text style or color of your signature through the <Font Style> drop-down list or Switch color palette.
TIP: You can sign your signature on a clean white sheet of paper using a black pen, and scan it to an image file. To create the best signature, it is suggested to scan your signature in monochrome at 600 DPI.
- Click Options to specify how to create and use the signature.
- Convert signature to black & white: the signature will be created in black and white even if the original image is chromatic.
- Keep original size: selects the option and the signature will be created with the original size. If the signature width/height is greater than the page size, Foxit PDF Editor will zoom it out to a signature with a width of 100 pixels while maintaining the original proportion. The option is only available when the signature is from an imported file or Clipboard. With the option unselected, the signature will be resized and created with a width of 100 pixels while maintaining the original proportion by default.
- Discard the signature when program closes: the signature will be discarded the next time you launch Foxit PDF Editor.
- Require password to use this signature: Specify a password that will be required when users sign the document with the signature. Enter the password again to confirm it.
- Click OK.
- Select your created signature on the signature palette, and then the cursor will be changed into a shape with the appearance preview of the signature.
- (Optional) Select (or enable) Keep Tool Selected on the ribbon so that you can add the same signature continuously without reselecting the same signature.
- Place the cursor to the position you want to sign and click. Or drag a rectangle to define the size and placement. The signature stays selected until you choose another tool. You can place multiple signatures on pages continuously without the need to reselect the same signature.
- Click the signature with the Hand command, and it will be highlighted with a red rectangle. After adding the signature, do any of the following, if necessary.
- To resize the signature, drag the small blue square on the lower right corner of the rectangle. After resizing the signature, you can right-click the signature and choose Set Current Size as Default to set the size as default so that Foxit PDF Editor will remember and apply the same size when you add the same signature in the future.
- To move the signature, drag the rectangle directly to the desired place.
- Before applying the signature, you can right-click the signature and choose relevant options from the context menu to copy, cut, paste, or delete the signature.
- Right-click the signature you added, and select Place on Multiple Pages from the context menu to place the signature to multiple pages.
- You can do one of the following to apply signatures to the document as required:
- To apply the current signature to the document, right-click the signature, and select Apply Signature from the context menu.
- To apply all signatures in the document, click Apply All Signatures on the ribbon.
If you want to flatten the document while applying the signatures, select the Flatten the document when applying all signatures option first in File > Preferences > PDF Sign (or click 
on the lower right corner of the signature palette and choose Preferences from the drop-down menu to select the option). For details about flattening, please refer to Flatten Pages.
- Upon completion, click Close to close the Fill & Sign context tab.
Note: Once applied, the signature can no longer be edited or deleted.
To manage the created signatures, do the following:
- Click Manage Signatures in the Fill & Sign context tab.
- In the Manage Signatures dialog box, do any of the following:
- Click Add to create signatures.
- Click the Edit
or Delete 
icon to edit or delete existing signatures. - Select a signature and click Move up or Move down to adjust its display order in the signature palette under the Fill & Sign context tab.
- Select a signature and click Save online to save it to Foxit Web Service. The signatures saved in Foxit Web Service can be downloaded to sign PDF files from within Foxit PDF Reader or Foxit PDF Editor in Windows and Mac.
- Upon completion, click Close to close the Fill & Sign context tab.