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Peninsula Personal Injury Lawyers

By: Alissa Stephenson

SIGNING PDF DOCUMENTS WITH YOUR PHONE

Signing PDF Documents with your Phone

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CONTENTS

Where to Find the App ............................................................................................................................ 2

Once you have downloaded the app ...................................................................................................... 3

What kind of Format is your Form? ........................................................................................................ 4

From PDF File ...................................................................................................................................... 5

Received the document via email (for IPhone) .................................................................................. 6

Received the document via email (for Android) ................................................................................. 7

Signing your Document ........................................................................................................................... 8

Signature Menu....................................................................................................................................... 9

Creating a Signature (first time users) .................................................................................................. 10

Adding your Signature to your Document ............................................................................................ 12

Manipulating your signature to the correct area in your Document ............................................... 13

Adding in other information (i.e. date) ................................................................................................. 15

Sending your completed Document back to us .................................................................................... 16

Emailing your document ................................................................................................................... 17

Email Subject Line ............................................................................................................................. 18


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Where to Find the App

Go to the App store and download this app - Adobe Fill & Sign: Easy PDF Form Filler.

The screen on your phone should look similar to the below, depending on if you are on an

Android or Apple phone

Look/Check the developer

is Adobe so you know it’s

the right app

Once you’re sure it’s the

correct app then click

‘download’ if you already

have the app installed click

‘Open’ (the open and

download buttons will be

in the same place)


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Once you have downloaded the app

Once you have downloaded the app, open it. Close any pop ups that ask you to sign in or pay (you

DO NOT need to pay for any features on this app to do what we need). Tap on the select a form

picture in the middle of the screen.


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What kind of Format is your Form?

From here you will need to choose the option that meets your needs.

1. The file is on your phone you will use:

From PDF File

2. You have a physical copy you will use:

take a picture option

MORE PRECISE INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO DO THE ABOVE ON THE FOLLOWING PAGES


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From PDF File Here is where you choose the document you want to sign.

If you scanned in the

document using the Adobe

Scan app you will need to

tap the app in the “browse

files in other apps” section

to access the documents

For more options and to

access downloads

(explained further on the

next page) tap this menu

icon.


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Received the document via email (for IPhone) If you received the document via email please download the PDF and choose the Downloads option

to open from. In Email : open the email – Open the document – press the upload icon,

then scroll to the right and find the icon – you may need to click on the more button . Then press: Copy to Adobe fill and sign.


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Received the document via email (for Android) If you received the document via email please download the PDF and choose the Downloads option

to open from.


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Signing your Document

After navigating to your file location you will then tap on the document that you want to sign this

screen might look different on IPhones but the same idea applies in that you will just be selecting

the document you need to add a signature too in the way your phone lets you.


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Signature Menu

After tapping your chosen document it should open up on your phone (please note the document

below is intentionally blank and you will be able to see your document at this step). You will then

need to navigate to the page that requires your signature (if there are more than one go to the first

one)

Tap this to get the menu

for adding your signature


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Creating a Signature (first time users)

For the FIRST time you will need to create a signature

Tap this option to create a

new signature.

John Smith

John Smith


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Using your finger please sign on the blue line - after entering your signature tap the “Done” button

(Circled in the second image). This will add this signature to the app.


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Adding your Signature to your Document

After adding your signature to the app, now when you tap the signature button you will get an

image of your signature rather than an option to create one.

Tap your signature to insert it

into the document.

John Smith

John Smith


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Manipulating your signature to the correct area in your Document After inserting your signature you can drag it to the required location in the document using your

finger.

John Smith

John Smith


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Zooming in (by pinching the screen with 2 fingers) helps to let you place the signature in the correct

location.

This allows you to resize the

signature to better fit the

location. It acts as a slider,

press on the button and drag it

left to make it smaller and right

to make it bigger. John Smith


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Adding in other information (i.e. date)

Tapping on a line (and potentially other locations) allows you to type information into the document.

In the example below I am adding the date to a document that I have signed.

John Smith John Smith


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Sending your completed Document back to us

After you have signed all the

relevant sections and added in

any information required tap

the share button to send it

across.

John Smith


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Emailing your document There are various ways to return your digital document back to us. We recommend email if you are

unsure of what to pick as email is the easiest option. It’s also free to set up an email account with

many services like Gmail and install their apps to access them on your phone if you need to.

Please send all documents through to [email protected].

Any options in this section can

work as they are just common

email addresses you send to i.e. if

you have sent a documents to us

already there might be an option

for [email protected] that you can

use.

Alternately any

email app on your

phone can be

used to send the

attachment to us.

mailto:[email protected]

mailto:[email protected]


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Email Subject Line You will then get an email similar to this come up with the document attached please make sure the

subject of the email has your first name and last name i.e. John Smith, along with a description of

what your sending (as simple as John Smith – Signed Documents) to allow us to sort it correctly.

Generally this is where the

subject of the message will be

located (right below the To: box)

As shown here the name of the

document that you added your

signature too will be

automatically put as the subject

for the email you will then have

to delete it and add in your name

along with the description.

[email protected]