Signature Capture Option missing in Preview

I have searched thru & thru for the tab that there should be in the Preview preferences and I just don't find one. I have PDF documents, I have turned on the annotations bar at the bottom and there simply isn't any option for signatures.
My OS is 10.6.8 and according to the software update function there aren't any updates available for it so I wonder what's the difference with my Preview...According to everything I've read so far, this version should have the signature capture option.
Can someone shed a light on this?
Cheers
JV

Well, thanks a lot Victoryhat, the mistery of the missing signature tab is solved It's not a big deal since I have other means to add signatures to PDF (Acrobat Pro) but it's a cool feature of that new Preview and it was annoying me not being able to use it...Btw, do you find Lion better & stable enough? (Sorry to digress here)
JV

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