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Working with Digital Signatures
Saving Signed Adobe Acrobat documents
In contrast, Adobe Acrobat does not consider a “Save As…” operation to be a document change. PDF files can be
renamed and
moved with the document open or closed, without jeopardizing the signature or showing any
changes to the document after it was signed.
Converting “working copies” of signed Word documents to pdf
Firms should always maintain a copy of original signed Word documents for the validity reasons discussed above. It
is permissible, however, to create a working copy of the signed document as pdf if there are features of Adobe
Acrobat documents that make this working copy attractive.
If you use the “Save as Adobe PDF” feature in Word, the digital signature will be removed altogether.
To convert a Word document to pdf while retaining an image of the signature, use the following procedure.
• Elect to print the Word document.
• Select “Adobe PDF” as the printer.
• When you hit the Print button, you will be prompted where to save the pdf document being created.
Nothing will actually print to paper.
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If you are attempting to convert an oversized label submission, you will need to adjust the paper size settings
to accommodate the larger page layout used in MS Word. There are different ways this can be done, and there
are certain documents that seem to work better one way vs. the other.
Go to the next page to see different methods.