{"id":4097,"date":"2016-08-29T09:25:42","date_gmt":"2016-08-29T13:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/research\/?page_id=4097"},"modified":"2022-06-27T14:40:58","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T18:40:58","slug":"create-a-digital-signature","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/research\/funding-grants\/grant-management-tools-resources\/create-a-digital-signature\/","title":{"rendered":"Create a Digital Signature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Updated 10\/4\/17<\/p>\n<h3>Step 1: Open document with Adobe Acrobat<\/h3>\n<p><img src=\"\/research\/files\/2017\/10\/psf-screenshot1.png\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Step 2: Click into the appropriate signature field.<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/research\/files\/2017\/10\/psf-screenshot2.png\" alt=\"Appropriate signature field\" width=\"636\" height=\"240\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4098\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Step 3: Dialog Box displays, allows the user to choose to sign using an existing digital signature or a new one. If this is your first time digitally signing a document, select the \u201ccreate new\u201d option. Click Next.<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/research\/files\/2016\/11\/Digitially-signing-2.png\" alt=\"Digitially signing 2\" width=\"500\" height=\"430\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4099\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Step 4: Select \u201cNew PKCS digital ID file\u201d as the format. Click Next.<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/research\/files\/2016\/11\/Digitially-signing-3.png\" alt=\"Digitially signing 3\" width=\"454\" height=\"392\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4100\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Step 5: Enter your Name, Organizational Unit, Organization Name, Email Address, and Country\/Region. Leave the default information in place for \u201cKey Algorithm\u201d and \u201cUse digital ID for\u201d fields. Click Next.<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/research\/files\/2016\/11\/Digitially-signing-4.png\" alt=\"Digitially signing 4\" width=\"479\" height=\"414\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4101\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Step 6: When prompted, select a password that you will use when digitally signing documents.<\/h3>\n<h3>Step 7: Apply your new signature to the document by entering your password and clicking Sign.<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/research\/files\/2016\/11\/Digitially-signing-5.png\" alt=\"Digitially signing 5\" width=\"396\" height=\"444\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4102\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the future, you should be able to use this signature to sign PSFs, or other Adobe documents. If you need assistance, please send a message to <a href=\"mailto:ROSAmail@bu.edu\">ROSAmail@bu.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updated 10\/4\/17 Step 1: Open document with Adobe Acrobat Step 2: Click into the appropriate signature field. Step 3: Dialog Box displays, allows the user to choose to sign using an existing digital signature or a new one. If this is your first time digitally signing a document, select the \u201ccreate new\u201d option. Click Next. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11959,"featured_media":0,"parent":39015,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4097"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11959"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4097"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18501,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4097\/revisions\/18501"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}