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Author Topic: Adding A Signature.  (Read 3354 times)

tickmike

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Adding A Signature.
« on: June 30, 2011, 11:29:24 PM »

Problem.
We have been sent a legal document that needs to be signed and dated by my wife and sent back via email.
It's a PDF file in an attachment on a email.
I can open the PDF with 'LibreOffice Writer' it's a 'read only' !.
I can get my wife to sign and date a plain piece of paper and then scan it .

How do I add the signature to the PDF ?.

'Gimp image editor' will not open the PDF !.

Other than printing out the PDF , signing it , copy it, send it, I cannot think of a way to do it.

Any idea's please.
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Re: Adding A Signature.
« Reply #1 on: July 01, 2011, 01:24:16 AM »

I was in a similar situation, last year. Eventually I took the option identical to your second idea --

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Other than printing out the PDF , signing it , copy it, send it, I cannot think of a way to do it.

Print, sign, scan and send. You know it makes sense! ;)
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Re: Adding A Signature.
« Reply #2 on: July 01, 2011, 07:33:18 AM »

It doesn't seem a very sensible way to secure someone's signature on a document, because lots of people will have the same problem dealing with it. I think I agree with BK that printing and scanning it is the best (only?) way.
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Re: Adding A Signature.
« Reply #3 on: July 01, 2011, 08:22:57 AM »

Not the only way, but the easiest. What I have done when I received one a while ago was open the PDF with Scribus, add my signature which I had already prepared as an image. Then print it out as a PDF. The signature I made with a graphics tablet some time ago.
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Re: Adding A Signature.
« Reply #4 on: July 01, 2011, 04:55:48 PM »

Can you not use ImageMagick's convert command to convert the .pdf to, say, png format?

Then add the scanned image of the signature with gimp, or ImageMagick if you're feeling masochistic and don't like guis, and output the composite as .pdf, or whatever format grabs your fancy.

Cheers,
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Re: Adding A Signature.
« Reply #5 on: July 01, 2011, 05:46:22 PM »

That sounds like yet another workable method. ;)

(Confession time -- I have never got around to masting usage of The Gimp. :-[ )
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Re: Adding A Signature.
« Reply #6 on: July 01, 2011, 05:58:31 PM »

...or I've just remembered that I had all manner of resolution problems with pdfs and ImageMagick.

Much better is pdftoppm. (Remember - manpage is your friend).
As an example, for a 2 page a4 sized file called a.pdf, this creates result-1.ppm and result-2.ppm @ 300dpi:
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pdftoppm -f 1 -l 2 -r 300 a.pdf result
         first last density       nn is page number

Then gimp away with the (huge) .ppm files to your hearts content.

Cheers,
Peter
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Re: Adding A Signature.
« Reply #7 on: July 01, 2011, 08:07:08 PM »

I've not tried that method because when I imported the *.pdf (which was a two page form) into Scribus the PDF was quite corrupt in that it was imported as one big layered file with all elements grouped as one. It was a fairly straight forward, if tedious job of sorting it all out, and it actually printed when exported as a PDF. Something I couldn't do from the original file. All PDF's are not the same. I might try the Imagemagick method.

The Gimp is an all mighty program. You would need to be a Gimp guru to understand it all.
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