Placement and appearance digital signature

I have a couple of questions about the placement and appearance of the digital signature.
First the placement:
Is it technically possible to place the digital signature after Word-fields when you convert Word to PDF/A? For example the { DOCPROPERTY "Name" }? Where the name is a custom field.
Appearance:
What I am trying to achieve is to get a digital signature appearance just like the one on an analog paper. Just the name, date and a picture of the analog signature (created by tablet, scan or mouse). Is it possible to get rid of the following:
Question/check mark?
The text "Digitally signed by"?
The line with the attributes from the certificate?
Thanks in advance!

Conversion of Word->PDF (PDF/A) is a specific application process (be it Acrobat or some other program). The visual appearance of the signature is defined by the application that you are using to sign the PDF.
This forum is for PDF file format discussions not application ones - so try the forum for the program (Acrobat?) you are using.
As a general answer - YES, you can put the signature anywhere on the page you want with whatever contents you want.

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