{"id":84,"date":"2020-03-28T15:09:43","date_gmt":"2020-03-28T12:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/byrou.com\/blog\/?p=84"},"modified":"2020-03-28T15:09:44","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T12:09:44","slug":"how-to-electronically-sign-a-pdf-for-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/byrou.com\/blog\/how-to-electronically-sign-a-pdf-for-free\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Electronically Sign a PDF for Free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How do I fill in and sign a document in 3 simple steps?<\/p>\n<p><strong>1) Convert that document to PDF format.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If the document is not already a PDF you can save it as a PDF as follows.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>For Word documents. Files -&gt; Save As -&gt; This PC -&gt; select file type and give it a name.<\/li>\n<li>Google Docs. File -&gt; Download -&gt; PDF Document<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you have an office file (.docx) but you don&#8217;t have Office installed you can import it into a new G Doc file.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2) Install <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxitsoftware.com\/pdf-reader\/\">Foxit Reader<\/a>, the free edition.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>3) Configure\/draw (with a mouse) your signature in Foxit Reader.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>open any PDF file, doesn&#8217;t matter if it is the one you want to sign or not<\/li>\n<li>go to <strong>PDF Sign<\/strong> tab (option found under <strong>Protect<\/strong> tab for some versions) and click on <strong>&#8220;+&#8221;<\/strong> icon to add a new signature<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>4) Apply the signature<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>open the PDF you want to sign and go to the page where the signature is required<\/li>\n<li>go to <strong>PDF Sign<\/strong> tab, you should now find there your signature<\/li>\n<li>click on your signature and move the mouse course over the position where the signature must be applied<\/li>\n<li>double click to apply the signature and save the document. You&#8217;re done ;).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here is a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=w1bq7omrOJI\">short video guide<\/a><\/strong> for the steps described at point #3.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5)<\/strong> <strong>Optional, how to fill in a PDF document.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0open the PDF with Foxit Reader and locate the page you need to fill in<\/li>\n<li>in the Home tab locate and click the &#8220;Typewriter&#8221; option<\/li>\n<li>click on the are of the page you want to fill in and start entering your text<\/li>\n<li>save the document. You&#8217;re done ;).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do I fill in and sign a document in 3 simple steps? 1) Convert that document to PDF format. If the document is not already a PDF you can save it as a PDF as follows. For Word documents. Files -&gt; Save As -&gt; This PC -&gt; select file type and give it a&hellip;<a href=\"https:\/\/byrou.com\/blog\/how-to-electronically-sign-a-pdf-for-free\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Continue reading<\/span><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How to Electronically Sign a PDF for Free<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[5,19],"tags":[24,23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/byrou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/byrou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/byrou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/byrou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/byrou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/byrou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90,"href":"https:\/\/byrou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions\/90"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/byrou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/byrou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/byrou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}