Signing a form without a signature field

We use the certify method of the SignatureServiceClient as described in
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/livecycle/9.0/programLC/help/index.htm?content=000898.html
Because we simply want to sign the form, we create an invisible signature field and pass that to the certify method.
This seems to be a long way around and is in fact causing us problems with the layout.
Question: Is it possible to sign the form not using a signature field?

Peter
That's odd, as it is possible to certify a PDF (without a signature field) when using a process created in Workbench. You would think that the APIs would function the same, unless the CertifyPDF operation in Workbench creates an invisible signature field as part of the certify operation.
You could check with Adobe Technical support to confirm.
Regards
Steve

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