Yes, you can request signatures on your PDF for free with Adobe Reader. Sign up for a free Adobe Acrobat account and you can request e-signatures online with Adobe.
Yes. To request a signature, you need to access All Tools from the Menu Bar while in your PDF. Once that’s done, select Request e-signatures then add the email address of your signers. Specify where to sign with drop-down signature fields, and send.
No, you do not need Adobe Sign to request a signature – and neither does your signee. There are other benefits to it, though. For example, Adobe Sign does not require Adobe Acrobat, and allows you to track, request, and manage e-signatures with advanced features.
Yes, Adobe's tools for collecting e-signatures are secure and tamper-proof. Once someone has signed the document, they cannot change the agreement afterwards — the document is locked down and cannot be altered. Once you've sent the document to be signed, all recipients' interactions with it are timestamped, too.
An alternative to using the free online tool is signing up for a 7-day free trial of Adobe Acrobat Pro. With this you can collect e-signatures with advanced authentication, among many other features. The tools are powered by Adobe Sign technology, which is backed by trust service providers (TSPs) and complies with regulations across the globe.
Requesting multiple signatures for your PDF is easy with Acrobat online tools. When you've uploaded your PDF and entered the first signee email address, simply add the other email addresses there.
Need certain people to sign in a specific place? You can mark up the PDF with where people need to sign. Once done, the PDF is sent to the first person on the email list. When they've e-signed it, it goes to the next person on the list, and so on. When everyone has signed, each recipient gets a copy of the completed agreement.
Yes. When you request an e-signature, you'll get a notification via email with the signed document attached once your signee completes the request.