How to sign a PDF document using a trackpad on a MacBook

Today's time is very busy and everything has to be done now. Pens are slowly but surely starting to disappear and are being replaced by computer and laptop keyboards. Who would have thought that today we will manage signatures on the trackpad of our MacBook? Probably no one. Anyway, most likely none of us will be able to stop technological progress, so we have to move with the times, which is not bad at all. Nowadays, electronic signatures are increasingly being used, when, for example, an institution sends you a PDF file in which you can sign it electronically. How to sign such a PDF file, we will look at that in today's tutorial.

How to sign a PDF with a trackpad?

• Let's open up PDF file, which we need to sign (make sure it's opened in the app preview)
• After opening the PDF file, click on the icon pencils in a circle, which is located in the upper right part of the window
• After that, the modifications that we can do with the PDF file will be displayed
• We click on signature icon, which is seventh from the left
• After clicking on this icon, another window will appear that has the one shown in it trackpad area
• Once we're ready to sign, just press a button Click here to get started
• After clicking this option, simply sign on your MacBook's trackpad (either with your finger or stylus)
• After you want to exit signing mode, press any key on the keyboard
• In case you are satisfied with your signature, press All done. If you want to repeat the signature, press the button Delete and proceed in the same way again
• The signature is then saved and whenever you want to use it in the future, just open the signature icon, click on one of the saved signatures and insert it into a contract or anything else you need to sign electronically.

Gallery

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PDF file

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Pencil icon in a circle

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Signature icon

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Click here to get started

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Delete or Done

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Signature selection

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Inserting a signature

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Result

Unfortunately, at the end I have to share one piece of information from my own experience – I own a MacBook Pro 2017 and it has happened to me about twice that the trackpad for creating a signature did not respond. But all I had to do was restart the MacBook. After that, everything worked like clockwork.

Discussion of the article

[joy]

So such a signature is of no use to you in Europe. Actually, it is equivalent to putting the first and last name above the "signature". I would definitely not sign a contract for a product more expensive than a roll. In Europe we have more sophisticated methods because we sign with a certificate. You should modify the instructions or at least not state that it can be used for contracts or that it is an electronic signature (although it really is an electronic signature, but that is also the above-mentioned first and last name), under this term, in general terms, I would prefer to see the signature with certificate.

[Zdeněk]

everyone understands that... IMHO, the above description is only a substitute for having to print, sign and scan the document back. If you communicate with institutions that still operate on the basis of signing a paper document (O2, banks, energy suppliers, state authorities, etc.), the above procedure is useful, and the relevant document can of course be subsequently provided with a certificate, or an e-mail message can be signed with a certificate, or services can be used Data boxes... And yes, I agree, the term "electronic signature" is usually used in the context of certificates, and this should rather be referred to as "digital signature" or something similar