A useful hack!
For 10,000,000 years, I've had a scan of my sig on my computer. When I get sent a form for a signature, I open it in the GIMP, open the signature JPG, paste the latter into the former, set the layer to "multiply" and align it.
This morning, I pasted that same JPG as a *brush*. Now I just select that brush and click once on the signature line!
This is incredibly obvious, but it never occurred to me, and maybe it's useful for you, too.
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Jon Gilbert
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •that *is* useful.
Dya ever worry about signature drift? Like, you're using a scan of your signature from 10,000,000 years ago, but in person a person's signature naturally drifts and changes over time (this is one reason we ask people to sign their name in the roster each time when they vote in SF). Do you update the jpg occasionally?
Cory Doctorow
in reply to Jon Gilbert • • •Nils
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Because right now my signature workflow looks exactly like your previous one. I got recently asked how my signed and scanned document looked so clean and preserved the actual text to copy & paste - well, cause I didn't print and scan it^^
Clayfoot
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David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Since a fairly early release of OS X (not sure the exact one, but at least 20 years ago), Apple’s Preview app has had a signatures thing in the menu bar. It can record a signature by signing with your finger on the trackpad and then, when you need to sign something, it’s just one click and a drag.
I’d assumed all PDF viewers had similar functionality by now.
Jonathan Lamothe
in reply to David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*) • •David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)
in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • • •It took a couple of attempts, but I got one that’s close enough 20 years ago. And I have now signed a lot more things with that version than I’ve signed with a pen, so it is now my de facto signature.
calvin 🛋️
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calvin 🛋️
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@pluralistic certainly sounds like one
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in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Khleedril
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Why?
Khleedril
in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • • •Jonathan Lamothe
in reply to Khleedril • •Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Most of the signatures I have to add to forms these days come in an electronic signing system.
But yes, we've had our signatures scanned for decades. Going back to the time when I moved money around in my wife's accounts whilst she was travelling, by sending her bank faxes I'd written with her signature pasted in. Scaled slightly differently each time, in case making it always pixel identical was too much of a giveaway.