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Creating Digital Signatures Quick Guide
The eSubmitter software is capable of digitally signing submissions. To allow eSubmitter to sign submissions, you must create a digital signature to identify yourself. This guide will demonstrate the steps necessary to create a digital signature in Adobe Reader and
Adobe Acrobat Professional. Finally, this guide will detail how to import your new digital signature into eSubmitter.

Create a Digital ID
Inside this guide:
Creating a Digital ID

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Access the Security Settings dialog.
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= Helpful Tip

Adobe Reader - On the menu click Document > Security Settings.
Adobe Pro - On the menu click Advanced > Security Settings.

After accessing the menu items above, the Security Settings dialog (shown below )
should be displayed.

= Important Info

2.

Click on the

button to display the Add Digital Id dialog.

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Select the Create a Self-Signed Digital ID radio button and click Next >

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Read the message that is displayed and click Next > .

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In the following dialog you are prompted to select the storage location of your digital id. Select the New PKCS#12 Digital ID file
radio button and click Next >.

6.

Add your information in the text fields provided and click Next >.
You will need to supply information for the first five fields only. Be sure to accept the default values for the remaining two
fields and checkbox.
The values you enter for your email address and organization name will be used to validate your signature against FDA
records.

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Enter the location where you would like your digital id saved, and a password. Confirm the password and click Finish.

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In the Security Settings dialog, click on the newly created digital id in the upper right-hand pane to view the summary of the id.
The summary is shown in the lower right-hand pane.

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