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Certify a document

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- [Instructor] Hi, Jim Rogers here, and in this episode of Bluebeam Tips and Tricks, I'm continuing the discussion of digital signatures and protecting your signed documents. In previous videos, I showed you how to validate a signature and how this process will show you if the document's been altered since it was signed. Now that's extremely useful, but as I demonstrated in that tip, the signed document can still be altered. If what you actually want to do is lock the page content to prevent changes at all, you can use your digital ID to do that too, and that's part of the process that Bluebeam calls digital certification. When you digitally certify a document, you're using your digital ID to lock that PDF content and prevent any changes. When you certify a document, you can also sign it, and you can select from some options as to what you actually lock and what you still allow other users to do. Let's take a look at a couple…

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