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Changing "Reason for Signing" menu options?

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2010-05-18 21:33:44
sez
Registered: May 18 2010
Posts: 2

I entered my own Reason for Signing when digitally signing a PDF, rather than choosing one of the options, and now that reason appears in the menu whenever I sign a PDF.

I want to remove that option from the menu, but there's no clear way to do so. Does anyone know how to do this?

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 9.3.1, Macintosh
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2010-05-19 17:24:58
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smadwin
Expert
Registered: Jul 10 2009
Posts: 40
Hi,

You're going to need to find and edit the following file:
[b]/Users//Library/Preferences/com.adobe.Acrobat.Pro__9.0.plist[/b] where is your log in name and will be either ppc or x86 depending on your type of computer.Once you have the file open you need to navigate to:
Root
Security
PubSec
Reasons

That's where you can remove the user generated reason.

Be forewarned though, editing a plist file is not for the faint of heart.

Steve

Steven Madwin
Software QA Engineer
Adobe Systems Incorporated
345 Park Avenue, MS-W15
San Jose, CA 95110-2704 USA
408.536.4343 p, 408.537.4053 f
Steven [dot] Madwin [at] adobe [dot] com

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2010-11-02 04:38:50
#2
abrahamm
Registered: Nov 2 2010
Posts: 2
The path above looks like a Unix path. I can't find the mentioned file in a Windows XP PC.
I did a full search on the C:\ drive for file Acrobat.Pro__9.0.plist and could not find anything.
Where the file should be located in Windows?

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