

ADOBE COMBINE PDFS PDF
The real stuff is going on inside the PDF where you can't see it. That stuff that's shown on the signature field is irrelevant. A valid signature ensures that the document hasn't changed since the signature was applied. If the document is changed in any way the checksum changes, so the signature becomes invalid. In the simplest sense a digital signature is a special checksum of all the bytes in the bytes in the PDF combined with all the bytes in the digital signature. Employees are literally wasting time sending, opening, signing, saving, sending, downloading, opening, saving, merging, waiting, saving, merging, etc. There seems to be no reasonable solution to simplify collecting all of this signed and flat documents every couple of weeks. One of the most common office workflows is to collect a dozen or more individual PDFs, such as invoices, therapy logs (each completed and signed by a different therapist), other logs that don't need signatures, etc., And send a merged pdf on a monthly basis to another company for billing or other purposes. I should still be able to USE that PDF for a million different reasons. But I'd consider it signed if I witnessed them sign it (ot sent it to their email address and they sent it back to me signed). If I make an IOU on a sheet of paper, I don't need my SO to digitally sign it. But in the real world, maybe an elementary school, a day hab facility, or a mom-and-pop shop, a signature is a signature is a signature, whether or not it was typed in, drawn in, stamped in, photocopied, etc.

I completely understand why a tech company like Adobe would have a hard time understanding why anyone would want a signed PDF that cannot be digitally verified. Let's take this a step further - how can we automate that "Print to PDF" step to flatten the signed PDF?
