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From: glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: signatures in PostScript
Keywords: PostScript  signatures   bitmaps   cleverness
Message-ID: <407@heaven.woodside.ca.us>
Date: 31 Jan 91 19:22:43 GMT
References: <13137@sunquest.UUCP>
Reply-To: glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid)
Distribution: usa
Organization: RightBrain Software, Woodside, CA
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In article <13137@sunquest.UUCP> terry@venus.sunquest.com (Terry R. Friedrichsen) writes:

>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.

That works well.  Another thing that I have done is to scan in the
signature and then curve-fit it with a stroked line, which ends up
being a bit smoother than the pixel signature, more believable, and
requires very little data as compared to the bitmap.

I read mine into Adobe Illustrator on the Mac and auto-traced it,
then cleaned it up so that it "looked like" my signature.  It looks
remarkably good, and you have to look very closely to notice that it
was not signed by hand.

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