How to move Fill&Sign Signatures in Foxit PDF Editor/Reader for windows from one computer to the other?

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To move your user  Fill&Sign  signatures to another computer, you only need to copy the whole folder which has the Fill&Sign signatures stored to the target computer.
The user Fill&Sign sign signatures in Foxit PDF Reader and Foxit PDF Editor for windows are stored in the following directories separately :

For versions prior to 11.2.1：

C:\Users\[current username]\AppData\Roaming\Foxit Software\Foxit Reader\InstaSign\UserSign

C:\Users\[current username]\AppData\Roaming\Foxit Software\Foxit PDF Editor\InstaSign\UserSign

Versions higher than V11.2.0 but lower than V12.0:

C:\Users\[current username]\AppData\Roaming\Foxit Software\Foxit PDF Reader\FoxitSign\UserSign

C:\Users\[current username]\AppData\Roaming\Foxit Software\Foxit PDF Editor\FoxitSign\UserSign

For version 12.0 and above:

C:\Users\[current username]\AppData\Roaming\Foxit Software\Foxit PDF Reader\InstaSign\UserSign

C:\Users\[current username]\AppData\Roaming\Foxit Software\Foxit PDF Editor\InstaSign\UserSign

 

Example: (taking version 12.0 and above as  an example)
To move PDF sign signatures in Foxit PDF Reader for windows desktop from USER1 computer with current login username AAA to Foxit PDF Reader for windows desktop on USER2 computer with current login username BBB, you will copy the whole 'InstaSign' folder from“C:\Users\AAA\AppData\Roaming\Foxit Software\Foxit PDF Reader\” to “C:\Users\BBB\AppData\Roaming\Foxit Software\Foxit PDF Reader\”.

 

In addition,if you often need to add PDF Sign signatures to PDF files on multiple computers,it is recommended that you choose to save the PDF sign signatures as online signatures ,so that you could select your created signature from online signatures directly on any computer.

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Note: To move Foxit Fill&Sign signatures from Foxit PhantomPDF to Foxit PDF Editor which version is higher than V11.2.0 but lower than V12.0, please do the following:
1:On old device with Foxit PhantomPDF installed,please copy all of files from the following folder：
C:\Users\[current username]\AppData\Roaming\Foxit Software\Foxit PhantomPDF\InstaSign\UserSign
2:On your new device with Foxit PDF Editor installed,please delete file "compatiable.ini" from the following folder if you could it there:
C:\Users\[current username]\AppData\Roaming\Foxit Software\Foxit PDF Editor\InstaSign\UserSign
3:Paste the copied files into the following folder on your new computer:
C:\Users\[current username]\AppData\Roaming\Foxit Software\Foxit PDF Editor\FoxitSign\UserSign

 

Related Topic:

How to move predefined texts under Fill&Sign tab in Foxit PDF Editor/Reader for windows from one computer to another computer.

 

 

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  • David Suh

    There is no \Instasign folder in either C:\Users\[current username]\AppData\Roaming\Foxit Software\Foxit PDF Editor\ or C:\Users\[current username]\AppData\Roaming\Foxit Software\Foxit PDF Reader\ directories. I need to move the signature from the Reader to the Editor app. I am running Reader v 10.1.0.37527 on Windows 10 Pro and Phantom PDF 10.1.3.37598.

     

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  • AARON SCHILZ

    This does not function, Foxit clears the directory of existing data on first run time. e.g. hardware refresh a computer and attempt to transfer over the Foxit roaming appdata folder and when user first runs Foxit it will clear out folders such as custom stamps and signatures. A work around appears to be locking the folder as read-only but then the user is locked out of creating additional items in those respective folders.

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