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Form-16 Digital Sign Validate PDF

The document provides instructions for validating a digital signature on a PDF form. It outlines the following steps: 1) Right click on the signature image and select "Validate signature" 2) Click "Signature Properties" and select the "Signer" tab to view the certificate 3) Click "Show Certificate" and "Trust" then "Add to Trusted Identities" 4) Click "Validate Signature" to confirm the signature is valid and see the validated signature image.

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Form-16 Digital Sign Validate PDF

The document provides instructions for validating a digital signature on a PDF form. It outlines the following steps: 1) Right click on the signature image and select "Validate signature" 2) Click "Signature Properties" and select the "Signer" tab to view the certificate 3) Click "Show Certificate" and "Trust" then "Add to Trusted Identities" 4) Click "Validate Signature" to confirm the signature is valid and see the validated signature image.

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How to validate a signature on a

digitally signed form16

1. About digital signatures

You will be downloading the form16 PDF file which will be digitally
signed. The first one you receive will probably have the following image
where you would normally expect to see a signature.

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2. How to validate the signature

In order to validate the signature, you should press the right hand mouse
button whilst you are hovering over the image and select the ‘Validate
signature’ option. If you select ‘Properties’, don’t worry as you will get to a
screen shown below so pick up the instructions from there. A popup will
appear as follows:

Click on either the ‘Legal Notice’ or the ‘Signature Properties’ button. If


you click on the ‘Signature Properties’ button the following popup will appear,
but the tabs along the top are the same if you click on ‘Legal Notice’.

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Next select the ‘Signer’ tab along the top, and the following screen will be
shown:

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Click on ‘Show Certificate’ and you will see the following:

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Click on the ‘Trust’ tab within this screen. The text on the right hand side of
the screen will change to show the Trust Settings as below.

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Click on the ‘Add to Trusted Identities’ button and you will see the following
message:

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Click ‘OK’, then at the next screen (shown below), click ‘OK’.

You will now be back at the ‘Trust Settings’ screen where you should click
‘OK’ again. Once you have done that, you will be back at the ‘Signer’ screen
and you should click on ‘Validate Signature’ and then click on ‘Close’.

When you look again at your pdf document, you should see the following
image where you would normally expect to see a signature:
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From that point on, your Form16 PDF documents downloaded by you
should show with valid as shown above.

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