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Why are my fields so out of alignment in eSignature?

  • November 11, 2024
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No matter how well I line up my fields when preparing an envelope, they are ALWAYS out of alignment post signing. What am I doing wrong? This makes my signed documents look terribly untidy, no matter how much I try.

Example here where the fields are perfectly aligned and centred within each section of the document. However, the final result has them both unaligned on the left-hand side, and also out of alignment with my document.

 

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Hello @jbeetham,

Thank you for reaching out to the Docusign Community.

Do you need the field to be in the same line?

Would it be possible for you to provide a blank copy of the document?

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Let us know if you need further assistance.

 

Best regards,

Christopher | Docusign Community Moderator

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Hi ​@jbeetham,

I hope you are doing well.

I want to confirm if you need further assistance, feel free to let me know and I will gladly help you address the situation as soon as possible.

 

Best regards,

 Christopher | Docusign Community Moderator

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Jake Fascia
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  • Active Voice
  • June 30, 2025

I feel your pain.   My favorite is instead of centering the checkbox X in the white box, or even the blue box, the output is somehow aligned towards the bottom of the blue box.

Please fix this obvious bug Docusign. It impacts most of your field types you have. 


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  • Newcomer
  • June 5, 2026

This is a proper pain!

Spending hours to place fields in the template (non-fillable PDF) only to seen the final values being placed half a line too high or too low when envelopes are signed. I honestly cannot grasp this is not a common complain.

Top, Middle, or Bottom align buttons would be nice, and the fields should have no padding.


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  • Community Moderator
  • June 12, 2026

Hi ​@TomD — thanks for the suggestion!

We love hearing how Docusign could be even more useful. While there is no available setting to control vertical text alignment within fields, or to remove field padding isn’t available at the moment,

the best place to share this kind of idea is on our Ideas board: Submit a feature request

That’s where ideas from Docusign users like you can submit ideas to improve Docusign’s features, and where you can also vote on ideas from other members.

We appreciate your input and hope you’ll keep the ideas coming.


Ma. Cassandra | Docusign Community Moderator
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