How to sign PDF on your Mac in seconds

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Working from home during the current coronavirus pandemic represents a number of challenges. From managing your children’s screen time or finding time to shop for essentials to learning new methods to do the job without all the normal tools you had at your disposal in an office.

For example, something as simple as signing a PDF or other document quickly becomes a tedious process of printing, scanning and emailing, and at the end of it all, you have a piece of paper that you no longer need.

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However, there is good news. If you have a Mac, you can use the built-in preview application to sign a document in less than a minute, once you have gone through the initial configuration process; this is one of my favorite hidden features on Mac. The first step is to enter your signature on your Mac (below). Then, each time after that, it will simply select the signature you saved and your Mac will apply it to the document to be signed. Piece of cake.

How to enter your digital signature on your Mac

1. Open your document in Preview.
2. Click on the Pen icon. 
3. Click on the signature button. Signature.
4. Choose Create Signature to create your signature. 

You have three options to create a digital version of your signature: 

• Trackpad: Select this option if you want to write your signature on your Mac trackpad with your finger.

• Camera: Sign a piece of paper and hold it in front of your Mac’s camera. The Preview tool will recognize your signature immediately and digitize it.

• iPhone: Choose this option to write your signature on the screen of your phone if it is at hand.

How to add your signature to a PDF

Now that the configuration is ready, your signature is already on the system and you will see how fast the Preview is when signing documents.

With your document open in Preview, follow the same process we just described, except that after clicking the signature button, click on your signature.

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A small box including your signature will appear in the document, which you can then drag and size. After aligning your signature, you can save the document and then share it.

I just calculated how long it takes me to open a document and click on the appropriate buttons to add a signature, and I could do it in less than a minute.