Re: [OT] signing a pdf document
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 11:42:29PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 14:30:18 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > People I do business with want me to physically sign a contract that
> > they send me as a small pdf (22K).
> >
> > I use Adobe Reader to print it, I sign the printed copy and scan the
> > result and send the jpeg image back: 3 pages totalling 891K!
> >
> > That is ridiculous. Is that the way everybody signs a pdf document?
>
> It is easy to scan your own signature and convert it into a compact
> vector-based PDF that can be scaled without loss of quality. I doubt
> that this constitutes a true signature in the legal sense, but it is
> quite handy, for example to send "signed" documents directly to a fax
> pseudo-printer.
>
> To put the signature into an original document, e.g. into a PDF
> registration form, I use Latex to superimpose the PDFs, as well as to
> fill in any additional data that the form requires. I know no other
> approach that preserves the full printing quality of the original PDF
> while keeping the final PDF small.
>
> I can post a simple example how to do this with Latex if you are
> interested. However, it would be rather obvious from the quality of
> latex-produced PDF that the original or contract has not been printed,
> signed and rescanned, so maybe your business partners would not accept
> such a PDF.
Anybody with a handy "rescanned" filter for cups? Add some noise to make
the document appear as acanned.
:-)
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