Acrobat Help | Signing PDFs

This question was posted in response to the following article: http://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/signing-pdfs.html

When I try to sign my 1040 tax return, an Appearance Integrity Report says, "Report code 4000: Unrecognized PDF Content. Details: Unrecognized PDF content: The document contains PDF content or custom content not supported by the current version of Adobe Reader."
I have a hard time believing that this official IRS form is not supported by Adobe Reader. That is the program the IRS says to use to Save, Print their forms. What do I do now?

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