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From: terry@venus.sunquest.com (Terry R. Friedrichsen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: signatures in PostScript
Summary: how do I get 'em?
Keywords: PostScript  signatures   bitmaps   cleverness
Message-ID: <13137@sunquest.UUCP>
Date: 30 Jan 91 17:21:15 GMT
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Distribution: usa
Organization: Sunquest Information Systems, Tucson
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Our company has the need to include the signatures of folks who are
authorized to sign things into PostScript documents.  For some reason,
our senior VP is unwilling to spend two or three days signing his name
1500 times on all copies of a mailing.  I don't pretend to understand
why not, but to avoid this, he has asked me to find out about converting
his signature so it can be printed directly on the PostScript document.

One way would be to scan in the signature, convert it to a pixel file
that PostScript will like, and send it down with the document.

Does anyone out there have any cleverer ideas?  Are there companies out
there which will take your signature and produce a PostScript represen-
tation of it, in some form?

How about representing the signature as a font character?

Here's a clever idea:  generate a fractal representation of the signature,
and feed THAT to PostScript with the appropriate image regeneration code.
Anybody have any thoughts on that?

Terry R. Friedrichsen

terry@venus.sunquest.com  (Internet)
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