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I once wrote my signature on a piece of white paper and scanned it in. Then used paint.net to delete the white parts and save it as a transparent PNG. Now I ju
by AnIdiotOnTheNet 6y ago
I once wrote my signature on a piece of white paper and scanned it in. Then used paint.net to delete the white parts and save it as a transparent PNG.
Now I just paste that over the appropriate place on electronic documents and email it back.
- ljoshua 6y agoPSA: For those on macOS, the Preview app has taken this exact concept and built it in for a while now, and I use it all the time. Clicking and dragging on my signature has saved me countless times.
- jessaustin 6y agoSomehow I am always surprised when I use a new PDF tool and discover that it, like all the others, has failed to use transparency to make signatures look right. No real signature fails to cross something already on a document, but every time we get this stupid blank box around the signature...
- 0xffff2 6y agoI find this rather amusing, because the much maligned Adobe Reader handles this just fine.
- Brian_K_White 6y agoI've been using a little app called Xournal on linux for years which does that just fine. I have a 600dpi png file with black foreground and transparent background. Xournal drops it anywhere right over the existing pdf image, resized and positioned at will, and the transparent parts are transparent.
- jessaustin 6y agoClearly I've been using the wrong tools... fortunately this isn't an extremely common task for me.
- 0xffff2 6y agoI did the same years ago. I've done everything from new job paperwork to buying a house to various government forms and I've yet to have anyone refuse to accept or even comment on the fact that my signature is a pixel-perfect copy on all documents.
- Brian_K_White 6y agoI did that once while sitting in my car all right on my phone. I was about to go in to something I couldn't blow off, and I couldn't blow off returning the mail as soon as possible either. But I had a Note 4 phone and a working cell connection and managed to get it all done in a few minutes right there in my drivers seat. I think I didn't even end up using the Note4's stylus but writing the signature on paper and taking a pic. It was a while ago so I don't remeber exactly what I did or what apps I used. I probably tried a few different things on the spot before I found something that worked. Maybe the official adobe android app had signature support like the desktop app does now, or maybe I had to do it more manually with some other combination of apps, but I know that I went from receiving an email with a pdf attachment to returning that email with my own new pdf attachment all in about 15 minutes with nothing but my phone.