Sign PDF
Draw, type or upload a signature and place it on the page.
Drop files here
Or paste them, or pick them from this device. Nothing is uploaded: the work happens in this tab.
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Your name, set in a typeface.
What the signature says.
The colour it is written in. Ignored by a picture, which brings its own.
Times.
How wide the signature is drawn. Its own proportions decide the height.
How far in from the edge it sits. Ignored when it is placed at a point.
Which pages it is signed on. The last one, by default.
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A TrueType or OpenType font to set the name in — a handwriting face, if you have one.
Sign the document
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Options
Your name, set in a typeface.
What the signature says.
The colour it is written in. Ignored by a picture, which brings its own.
Times.
How wide the signature is drawn. Its own proportions decide the height.
How far in from the edge it sits. Ignored when it is placed at a point.
Which pages it is signed on. The last one, by default.
Advanced
A TrueType or OpenType font to set the name in — a handwriting face, if you have one.
Where it goes on the page
The area you draw says where the signature goes and how wide it is. Its height is its own: a signature keeps the proportions it was drawn in. What stands on the foot of the area is the signature, or the date, if you have asked for one underneath it.
Drop a PDF above and its pages appear here.
No pages yet
Drop a PDF above and its pages appear here.
Drag across the page to draw an area. With the keyboard: Tab to an area, then the arrow keys move it, Shift and an arrow key moves it further, Control (or Command) and an arrow key changes its size, and Delete removes it.
What this does
This places a signature on the page: your own hand as you drew it, your name set in a face, or a photograph of a pen mark. Being part of the page, nobody can move it, hide it or take it off again. Separately, and it is genuinely separate, it can add a certificate signature — which covers every byte of the file and says only that those bytes have not changed since and that whoever signed held the private key.
What it will not do
Every tool here says what it cannot do, in its own words, before you rely on it.
- A signature placed here is a drawing of a signature. It becomes part of the page, so nobody can move it, hide it or take it off again — but by itself it is not evidence of anything: everyone who has the file can see it, and anyone can draw another like it.
- A certificate signature says two things and no more: that the file has not changed since it was signed, and that whoever signed it held the private key. Whether the certificate really belongs to the person it names is for whoever checks it to decide. Pagecraft is not a certificate authority and vouches for nobody.
- Neither kind is a qualified electronic signature under eIDAS, and neither is on Adobe’s trusted list. Where the law or a counterparty requires one of those, this is not one.
- A certificate signature covers the whole file, so it is written in place of any signature the document already carried. Signing a document somebody else has already signed breaks their signature.
- Signing with a certificate needs an RSA certificate and an unencrypted PKCS#8 private key. An encrypted key has to be decrypted first, because there is nowhere here to ask for its password.
- A typed signature is set in a handwriting face where there is one: the file you chose, or the one this site offers as a download. With neither, it is set in an italic serif and the result says so.
- A pictured signature is drawn exactly as it arrives. A transparent background lets the page show through; a white one is drawn as white, and will cover what it sits on.
- Shaping and joining come from the font itself, and nothing reorders a line: text is drawn in the order it is given, so a line mixing right-to-left and left-to-right writing comes out in that order rather than in reading order.
Questions people ask
Is this legally binding?
A drawn signature is a picture of a signature: it records who signed rather than proving it, and anyone who has the file can copy it. A certificate signature proves the file has not changed and that the signer held a key. Neither is a qualified electronic signature under eIDAS. Where the law or the other party requires one, this is not it.
Is my signature or my private key uploaded anywhere?
No. The drawing, the certificate and the key are read in this tab and used here. There is no server in this product to send them to.
Is my file uploaded anywhere?
No. The work happens in this browser tab, on your own machine. There is no server in this product to send a file to, which is why the promise is checkable rather than something you have to take on trust: open your browser's network panel and watch it do the work without making a request.
Is there a size limit, or a limit on how many files?
None that we impose. The limit is your own machine's memory, because that is where the work happens — a few hundred megabytes is comfortable on a laptop, and less on a phone. There is no daily task counter, no queue and no account.
What does it cost, and what is the catch?
Nothing, and there is no paid tier that unlocks features: the whole product is the free one. That is affordable because running it costs us nothing — your computer does the work — so there is no per-file cost to recover, no advertising and no data to sell.