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                        <p>You can expedite the signing process and optimize
your results by making the following preparations in advance:</p>

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                                 <div class="p">Obtain a digital ID, or create a self-signed digital ID in Reader. <div class="note"><span class="notetitle">Note:  </span>You
cannot create self-signed digital IDs from within FIPS mode.</div>

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                                 <p>Set the default signing method. </p>

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                                 <p>Create an appearance for your digital signature.</p>

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                                 <p>Use Preview Document mode to suppress any dynamic content
that may alter the appearance of the document and mislead you into
signing something you shouldn’t. </p>

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                                 <p>Review all the pages in a document before you sign. Documents
may contain signature fields on multiple pages. When you sign one
field, your signature appears in all occurrences of the field, whether
you approve those pages or not.</p>

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