Securing Digital Signatures and none of that other stuff

Hello.  I am new to getting help from highly knowledgeable people in this type of forum.  This will be my second question asked.  The first time response was quick, correct, and succinct.  I am grateful for your help and I thank you.  I will need to find out how to close out the thread I initiated wit the first question.  Now my second question will allow me to cut to the chase, (provided I learned correctly what my mentors told me when responding to my first question).  Here it is: I want to lock my digital signature to a PDF document without the use of a third party CA or without becoming a do it yourself CA.  From my perspective it would seem that these programs or services are far more that I need.  I simply need to secure, lock don my digital signature of PDF document that I send out to government agencies.  It’s a one way trip.  Copies of the documents are provided to members of my association, again a one way trip.  I need to have my digital signature integrated into the text of the document and secure as well as the PDF document itself.  That is all I want to do; no tracking, no secured return digital signatures, etc.  I prefer to by a add in or an easy to use software program, but if I absolutely have to, I can work with the “cloud”.  Can anybody point me in the right direction?   Eally need help.
Thanks for your consideration and past assistance.
HALO

There are many different types of digital signatures. I use digital signatures that are self-signed. They cannot be verified by the people that receive them, but guarentee the documents haven't been changed since signed.
This article might help: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/acrobat/X/standard/using/WS11dd809af63f0e1e-43e0464b12b4384d3b 6-8000.html
As to your previous thread. We do not close threads usually as other people with similar issues may want to post or read the thread. You can go and mark the thread as solved.

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