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From: stanley@phoenix.com (John Stanley)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: signatures in PostScript
Keywords: PostScript  signatures   bitmaps   cleverness
Message-ID: <7TH3w2w163w@phoenix.com>
Date: 8 Feb 91 20:38:05 GMT
References: <1991Feb4.181613.22256@tcsc3b2.tcsc.com>
Organization: Not BIFF At All (NBAA)
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> terry@venus.sunquest.com (Terry R. Friedrichsen) writes:
> 
> >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?

   What is unclever about scanning and including the pixel file? If
your publishing software allows you to input a TIFF or other format
file, why not just do that? If the publishing software outputs PS,
then inputting the signature TIFF and outputing a PS file, bingo,
you have a PS signature. Why pay someone to do it? Are you writing
the whole document in PostScript directly?