Security Settings/Forms/Signature

I have saved a form from Adobe Acrobat XI and when I send it to a viewer using Reader they get an error that says:  I am not sure what I am doing wrong.  We need to have the user sign in multiple locations on the form. 

The first dialog shows you are enabling digital signatures. Is it possible they are NOT trying to do digital signatures at all? But maybe stick on scribbled signatures?
Also, digital signatures do not really have a location (except incidentally). A PDF is signed once and once only for the whole PDF. Attempts to have it signed more than once usually show a misunderstanding of the whole idea of digital signatures, and being tied to close to an old paper-based model.

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