11.2.1 for Windows

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Chapter 11: Signature User Manual
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create a self-signed digital ID.
5. Set authorized actions for your document from the drop-down menu in
Permitted Actions After Certifying item.
6. Set the signing reason and choose an appearance type from the menu.
7. Click Sign.
8. To set the properties of the signature, please refer to Signature Field Properties.
9. To sign the document, please see Sign a PDF.
10. To validate the signature, please refer to Validate Signatures.
Add a time stamp to digital signatures and documents
Time stamps are used to specify the date and time you signed a document. A trusted
time stamp proves that the contents of your PDFs existed at a point-in-time and have
not changed since then. Foxit PDF Editor allows you to add a trusted time stamp to
digital signatures or documents.
To add a time stamp to digital signatures
To add a time stamp to digital signatures, a default time stamp server is required
before you make the digital signature. If you have configured a default time stamp
server and added it to your trusted certificate list, the time stamp will be embedded
with the signature, and the signature properties will show the date/time in the time
stamp server when you signed the document; otherwise, the signature properties will
display the local date/time of the computer.
1. Go to File > Preferences > Time Stamp Servers, and set a default time stamp
server.
2. Sign the document. See also Sign a PDF.
3. You will be prompted with a pop-up Security Warning to ask you to allow
connecting to your time stamp server. Click Allow.
4. Then the signature you made has been successfully embedded with a timestamp.
When validating the signature, users need to add the time stamp server into the
trusted certificate list so that the signature properties will display the date/time in
the time stamp server when the document was signed. See also Trusted
Certificates.
Note: By default, if only one time stamp server is available in the system, it will be set as
default automatically.