Physical signature in doc.

[G. Michael Paine]

I am using WordX. I would like to affix my signature to a letter before
I print or fax it.
How can this be done?
Are there serivices that can make a file of my signature that I can
somehow insert onto a letter file?

Michael

 

[Elliott Roper]

I am using WordX. I would like to affix my signature to a letter before
I print or fax it.
How can this be done?
Are there serivices that can make a file of my signature that I can
somehow insert onto a letter file?

This is easy. Take your basic scanner software and something like
Photoshop Elements or GraphicConverter and prepare a picture file of
your scanned signature. A tiff image would be suitable. Then from Word,
do an insert picture from file. Expect to fiddle with the size to get
it perfect.

I'd guess that it would not stand up to scrutiny in a court, but anyone
silly enough to accept a faxed signature couldl not tell the
difference.
Then from Word.

If you do that kind of thing a lot, you might consider a template with
the signature already there as a starting point.

 

[JE McGimpsey]

I am using WordX. I would like to affix my signature to a letter before
I print or fax it.
How can this be done?
Are there serivices that can make a file of my signature that I can
somehow insert onto a letter file?

There are firms that will turn your signature, handwriting, or both,
into a font. A Google search will find them.

If you scan your signature and save it as a PICT, it's easy to insert
the picture into a Word Document (Insert/Picture/From File).

Note that this can be a dangerous thing - you'd never want to send
anyone a Word file with your signature picture (send a PDF instead),
and, if someone else gains access to your machine, they'd be able to
create documents with your sig.

 

[G. Michael Paine]

There are firms that will turn your signature, handwriting, or both,
into a font. A Google search will find them.

If you scan your signature and save it as a PICT, it's easy to insert
the picture into a Word Document (Insert/Picture/From File).

Note that this can be a dangerous thing - you'd never want to send
anyone a Word file with your signature picture (send a PDF instead),
and, if someone else gains access to your machine, they'd be able to
create documents with your sig.

Thanks for the advice.
I just got new printer that is also a scanner, I'll give it a try.

Michael

 

[G. Michael Paine]

This is easy. Take your basic scanner software and something like
Photoshop Elements or GraphicConverter and prepare a picture file of
your scanned signature. A tiff image would be suitable. Then from Word,
do an insert picture from file. Expect to fiddle with the size to get
it perfect.

I'd guess that it would not stand up to scrutiny in a court, but anyone
silly enough to accept a faxed signature couldl not tell the
difference.
Then from Word.

If you do that kind of thing a lot, you might consider a template with
the signature already there as a starting point.

Thanks for the advice. I'll try it on my scanner.

Michael

 

[Bill Weylock]

I almost always fax or convert to a PDF, but I figure someone can always
copy a signature from the PDF if it becomes that important to him.

No?


Best,


- Bill

There are firms that will turn your signature, handwriting, or both,
into a font. A Google search will find them.

If you scan your signature and save it as a PICT, it's easy to insert
the picture into a Word Document (Insert/Picture/From File).

Note that this can be a dangerous thing - you'd never want to send
anyone a Word file with your signature picture (send a PDF instead),
and, if someone else gains access to your machine, they'd be able to
create documents with your sig.

Panther 10.3.4
Office 2004

 

[Bill Weylock]

A little trick you will probably want to add is putting the signature
graphic "behind text" in the layout tab of the Format Picture dialog. That
works for putting it onto a lined signature slot on a contract document (for
instance).


Best,


- Bill

Thanks for the advice. I'll try it on my scanner.

Michael

Panther 10.3.4
Office 2004

 

[JE McGimpsey]

I almost always fax or convert to a PDF, but I figure someone can always
copy a signature from the PDF if it becomes that important to him.

No?

Of course, just as they could scan a real signature of yours. However,
to me there's a possibly spurious qualitative difference between copying
from a PDF and having the picture in a Word file.

 

[Elliott Roper]

Of course, just as they could scan a real signature of yours. However,
to me there's a possibly spurious qualitative difference between copying
from a PDF and having the picture in a Word file.

McGimpsey, there isn't a single person on the internet that I'd rather
have a spurious qualitative difference with.

except maybe Bill, because the second half of every one of his posts is
that new-fangled HTML. It'll never catch on you know!

 

[Gene van Troyer]

Note that this can be a dangerous thing - you'd never want to send
anyone a Word file with your signature picture (send a PDF instead),
and, if someone else gains access to your machine, they'd be able to
create documents with your sig.

But J.E., I can always scan the other guy's physical signature from a
document and use it anyway. It doesn't make any difference whether I grabbed
it from a Word file.

And since I have Acrobat, I could still grab an image using Acrobat's
editing tools.

Folks predisposed to forgery have all kinds of tricks for copying
signatures.

Gene van Troyer

 

[Gene van Troyer]

Of course, just as they could scan a real signature of yours. However,
to me there's a possibly spurious qualitative difference between copying
from a PDF and having the picture in a Word file.

Ah, but Photoshop or any other halfway decent graphics app can compensate
for those possibly spurious differences...

Gene van Troyer