2024 GUIDE: Digitally Sign PDF With  Certificate (DSC)

To add a digital certificate to a PDF signature in Adobe Acrobat, you'll need to follow the next steps.

1. Open Adobe Acrobat
2. Upload your PDF
3. Go to Tools
4. Scroll down to Forms and Certificates
5. Select “Open”, under “Certificates”
6. Select “Digitally Sign” on the top bar
7. Click Configure New Digital ID.
8. Fill in the relevant data
9. When you’re done, click Sign → Apply the signature

That's it. Now your signature comes with a digital certificate! 

You can use SignHouse's signature generator, which is 100% free. You can choose between:

1. Hand-drawing your signature.
   
   (This works better with a touchpad, tablet, smartphone or even a drawing tablet.)
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2. Choose from one of our carefully-curated fonts that mimic handwriting.

At the end, our Signature generator will put out a transparent-background signature that is ready to be uploaded.

A transparent-background signature works best, as that probably means you can use it in one of those rare situations where you either have a non-white background, or, on a white-background document, you still want the elements under the signature to be visible (e.g. a dotted line).

SignHouse's signature generator puts out transparent-background signatures! 

1. Open up the SignHouse app (you don't need to log in to get satrted).

2. Upload your PDF doc using our simple uploader. Click highlighted area in the picture above — an upload box will pop up, for you to add your .PDF file.

3. Click the “Signature” block on the sidebar

4. The pop-up showing all the options will pop-up. You will want to select “Upload”.

5. Over there you will be able to add your signature to the PDF file.

You will be able to:

• Either drag-and-drop the signature's image/file
• Upload by clicking → selecting the document
• Select the image/file of your signature from Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox or Google Photos

Yes you can! You can either draw a signature by hand, or add one if you already have it

To draw a handwritten signature in Word:

1. Click “Insert” in the top bar
2. Select “Drawing”
3. Make sure you click “Draw” as the 2nd option → then select a pen
4. Start drawing your signature
5. Click “Save and Close”
6. Once you signature is added, make sure you resize it, as MS Word makes it full-width by default. Voila! That’s your signature.

This will definitely work better on a laptop with a touchpad, rather than with a mouse on a desktop device. Or, probably the best way, with a pencil on a tablet.

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To add a handwritten signature in Word:

1. Open up Word
2. Go to “Insert”
3. Click “Pictures”
4. Click “This Device”
5. Upload your signature’s photo

Yes, signed agreements hold up in court, but they first need to be valid (before being signed). As long the agreements meet the following 4 conditions, they are valid:

1. Mutual agreement by both parties
2. Legal validity
3. Capacity
4. Consideration

A signature added to an agreement is, to put it shortly, the confirmation that you agree with the clauses and conditions.

However, the 4 conditions listed above need to be met in order for the contract/agreement to be enforceable in a court of law.

When the 4 conditions are met + your signature is added, it holds up in court!