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Drawing, typing, uploading or reusing a signature
The ways to sign, and how to save one for next time.
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Tap any field marked SIGN and a panel opens headed Add your signature. It offers Draw, Type and Upload, plus Saved once there is something to reuse. Whichever you choose, the panel closes with Apply signature, and the signature drops into the field on the page.
Draw
The default for a first signature. Sign inside the box with a mouse, a trackpad, a finger or a stylus. Clear wipes it so you can start again, and the caption underneath confirms what is being asked for. Drawing on a phone with a finger usually produces a better result than a mouse.
Drawing needs something to point with. If you are working from a keyboard alone, use Type or Upload instead.
Type
Type your full name into the box and CecurSign renders it in a signature style. Four styles are offered under Select a style:, and each button previews your own name rather than a sample, so you can see what will go on the document. Preview underneath shows the version that will be applied.
Upload
Use a picture of your own handwritten signature. Press Choose an image and pick a PNG or JPEG of up to 10 MB, or drag the file onto the box on a computer. A photo of your signature on plain white paper works well.
CecurSign removes the paper background, crops the image to your signature and shows you the result before you apply it. If it does not look right, press Choose a different image. The cleaned-up image is the only thing that is sent, so details a phone stores inside a photo, such as where it was taken, never leave your device.
An uploaded signature is used for this envelope only. It is not kept for next time unless you save it to your own account, described below.
Saved
The Saved tab appears as soon as you have signed once in the same envelope, and it becomes the tab that opens by default. That is what makes a ten page pack quick, because you sign once and then apply the same mark to every remaining field.
If you have a CecurSign account and the envelope was sent to the email address you sign in with, Saved also lists the signatures from your account, with your default first. Pick one and press Apply signature.
Initials
Fields marked INITIAL work the same way, from a panel headed Add your initials. Draw them, type them, upload them, or reuse initials you entered earlier or saved to your account, then press Apply initials.
Changing your mind
Nothing is committed until you finish. Tap a field you have already filled and the panel reopens so you can replace what is there. The tooltip on a completed field says so as well. Only when you press Finish, tick the consent box and press Agree & Sign does the signing become part of the record.
If you have a CecurSign account
People signing on behalf of your own company have a second route. Settings, then My signatures, keeps signatures on your account and lets you mark one as your default. You can draw, type or upload each one. When an envelope reaches you and every field of yours can be filled from it, the envelope page offers Quick Sign, which applies that signature to all of them at once. Your saved signature is also what a self signing role in a template uses.
A few practical notes
- A signature drawn on a phone in landscape is usually steadier than one drawn in portrait.
- The style you pick for a typed signature is a matter of appearance only. What is recorded is the image, how it was made (drawn, typed or uploaded), the time, and the rest of the evidence described in The audit trail.
- If the field will not accept anything, check that you are the person it is assigned to. Fields belonging to another signer are not shown to you at all.