In response to my prior questioning about 'losing' a signature when the form is not set for " make read only to users " in post https://answers.laserfiche.com/questions/101898/Why-isnt-the-native-Signature-appearing-on-form-in-repository#repliesToMain I chose to save the document to the repository BEFORE any user tasks were executed.
Since I would be saving two copies of the form, the one with the signature and the completed form (with changes and without the signature) I set the folder to track versions on existing documents and subfolders.
When the process completed, I noticed that the completed form ended up as three pages instead of two pages. The difference between the signature version (1) and the completed version (2) is that the hidden form content was saved as part of the completed version.
Why does this happen? How do I get it to save the correct fields?
I checked Client vs. Web Access and found that this holds true there as well. In addition, in the client, some of the template fields show up in different fonts on the signature version vs. the completed version.