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Signing a document

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Where: Document menu (⋮) › PDF tools and signing › Sign; in the reader ⋮ › Sign; Tools › Sign (a document is chosen); Tools › Scan and sign.

At the very top of the Sign document screen, the "Your signatures and stamps" strip shows your saved signatures and stamps by name; tap it to go to their list. Below it are the ways to choose a document: "Choose document from library" (folders, search; "Choose PDF from device" at the top), "Scan with camera", "Choose photo" and "Choose PDF file".

As soon as the screen opens, your saved signature, stamp and today's date are placed on the last page where you last left them (the first time: signature at the bottom right, stamp overlapping the signature; drag them apart if you like); if you are happy, just tap the check button at the bottom right ("quick sign"). Every result is a new "(signed)" document; the original does not change.

  1. 1The Signature, Initials, Stamp and Date buttons on the bottom bar work as toggles: if the item is on that page the button looks filled and tapping it removes the item ("Undo" in the message at the bottom); otherwise it is added. For example, if you don't want the stamp, just tap the Stamp button once. Initials are small, at the bottom left and on every page (if no initials are saved your signature is applied small); Date is today's date. Text (e.g. "True copy") adds a new text with each tap. If no signature or stamp is saved, the button takes you to the screen to define one.
  2. 2Drag to move. With two fingers, enlarge or shrink the selected item and rotate it by turning your fingers; your fingers don't need to be on the item. The selected item has three handles at its corners: the red cross at the top left removes it, turning the handle at the top right rotates it (it snaps when close to straight angles), and the handle at the bottom right enlarges or shrinks it with one finger. Change pages with the arrows at the top.
  3. 3Tapping an item selects it; where a signature and stamp overlap the top one is selected, so grab the lower one by its visible edge. Tapping an empty spot clears the selection. The row under the page shows Rotate, Delete and "Edit". "Edit" opens a panel from the bottom (swipe down to close it): "Choose from set" (one of the signatures, initials or stamps in your set; see Adding a signature and stamp), Width (in mm), Colour (original, black, blue, red, white, brown, orange and your letterhead's accent colour), Ink thickness (two steps thinner, two steps bolder; a faint ballpoint signature gets fuller), Opacity, Rotate (15-degree steps), scope (This page, Last page, All pages), Remove and "Apply to all" (gives the same colour, thickness and size to all signatures and stamps in the document).
  4. 4Confirm: the document is added to the library as "(signed)" with the "signed" tag (Tags › Signature › Signed); your placement and colour preferences are remembered for the next document.

Draft: if you have to stop halfway, the save icon on the right of the bottom bar is "Save draft". The placement is kept with the document, which drops under Tags › Signature › Draft; when you tap Sign again it continues where you left off ("Draft restored"). The draft stays on this device; the tag goes through Drive.

Documents awaiting signature: when you receive a document to sign, use document menu (⋮) › PDF tools and signing › "Mark as awaiting signature"; they collect in the Tags › Signature › Waiting list, and the mark is removed automatically when you sign.

Scan and sign: scan a paper you have just to sign it. "Scan with camera" opens 's scanner in single-page mode (edges are found, perspective is corrected); "Choose photo" takes one from the gallery. The page goes straight to the signing screen without stopping in the library; only the signed result is saved.

Tip: If you apply the stamp at 80 percent opacity, the paper texture shows through. Saying "add my blue signature, add the date, initial every page" to Ai gives the same result.
Web (quillo.tr): On quillo.tr, document menu (⋮) › Sign, the signature icon in the reader's top bar (the open document comes straight to the signing screen; text, Word and web documents are converted to PDF and signed), or ⋮ › Sign and Letterhead, signature › Sign document are the same flow: with no document chosen, "Scan with camera" opens the paper directly; the Signature, Initials, Stamp and Date buttons work as toggles here too (the "Undo" link appears at the bottom of the page); the selected item has remove, rotate and resize handles at its corners, on a touch screen you can enlarge and rotate with two fingers, and on the keyboard Delete removes the selected item; clicking an item shows Choose from set, size, colour, thickness, opacity, rotation and scope in the panel on the right; the Initials button shows if your set has initials; the "Save draft" button is under the run button for library documents. Thickness is applied only to the result and is not visible in the preview.
iPhone: Document menu (⋮) › Sign and reader ⋮ › Sign are the same flow; the Signature, Initials, Stamp and Date buttons work as toggles ("Undo" in the message at the bottom), the selected item has remove, rotate and resize handles at its corners, and you can enlarge and rotate with two fingers anywhere on the page.

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