The signature field is specially designed by to create blank digital signature fields for reviewers to sign. You can place the field anywhere you want the reviewers to sign.
Create a new Signature field
Choose Form > Signature Field
, your cursor will change into
and do the following:
- Drag an area in the desired place to create a signature field.
- A box appears under the field for you to input the name.
- You can also click the All Properties to do more settings. Or double-click the field to open the signature Properties dialog box.
For moving, resizing, deleting, duplicating the signature field and setting tab order, please refer to “Push button”.
To set signature field’s General, Appearance, Position, and Actions tab properties, please refer to “Set push button properties”.
Foxit PDF Editor supports to sign and verify digital signatures on XFA forms created by Adobe LiveCycle. To sign and verify digital signatures, please refer to Digital Signature.
The Signed tab for the signature field properties
- Nothing Happens When Signed – it is set as default.
- Mark As Read-Only - Prevents other readers to change the digitally signed form.
- All Fields - Prevents any changes to any form field.
- All Fields Except These - Allows changing the selected form fields. Click the Pick button and select check boxes for the fields that you want the reviewers to edit after signing.
- Just These Fields – Prevent to change the form fields you pick.
- This Script Executes When Field is Signed:
Activate a custom JavaScript when the user digitally signs the form. Click the Edit button to change or create a new JavaScript action.