Signing and Saving PDF

My Adobe isn't letting me add a signature, and the document that I am downloading from my school's website has signature not allowed under properties. Tried to convert to word and then back to a PDF to change properties but it is still not allowing signatures without echosign. My prof needs to add his own signature and does not want to do it through echosign. Trying to get the document signed and saved as a PDF then sent to him. Any suggestions?

Thank you for the answer and explanation. Unfortunately I am still not sure the best solution.
It is a business application for a city site. As a result the limit of 500 is obviously not going to work. Also for legal reasons they need the form physically signed.
The original hope was to provide a PDF form that could be filled in (almost entirely) on the computer if desire and then printed, signed, and turned in to the city.
What they don't want is for someone to fill it out on the computer, use the echosign and email it as they need the physical signature.
Sounds like we might have to choose between:
- not having it interactive (so they can just print it out and fill it out)
Or
- make it so they can fill it out on the computer, but include instructions that they need the print it out and physically sign it. And hope they follow the instructions.
Again, thank you for the explanation. I think I will just have to let them decide.

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