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. :-) -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | best ICQ# 16849754 | | friend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
