Digital signature for PDF documents
To digitally sign PDF documents ...
- ... A valid personal certificate must be available.
- The certificate must be applied for and downloaded. You can find instructions on how to do this here.
- The certificate must be imported into the certificate store of the operating system.
Import certificate
Finalise import
- Enter the password for your certificate (certificate password that you also use when sending an encrypted mail).
- Deactivate all ticks except the last one.
- Confirm by clicking on "Next". (Fig. 3)
- In the following dialogue, activate "Automatically select certificate store".
- Confirm with "Next". (Fig. 4)
- Complete the import by clicking on "Finish". (Fig. 5)
- You will receive the message "The import process was successful". (Fig. 6)
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In the "Keychain Management" app (Fig. 1) on the Mac, select either the "Login" or "System" keychain (Fig. 2).
Drag and drop the certificate file onto the "Keychain Management" app (Fig. 3).
Enter the name and password of an admin on this computer when prompted (Fig. 4).
- Open the document to be signed in a PDF editor (e.g. Adobe Reader). Opening a PDF document via a viewer directly in the browser is not sufficient.
- Click on a signature field (Fig. 1).
- If you have several certificates, you must select the correct one (Fig. 2).
Then click on "Next". - In the next dialogue, click on "Sign" (Fig. 3).