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. -- Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
