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From: prs@tcsc3b2.tcsc.com (Paul Stath)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: signatures in PostScript
Keywords: PostScript  signatures   bitmaps   cleverness
Message-ID: <1991Feb4.181613.22256@tcsc3b2.tcsc.com>
Date: 4 Feb 91 18:16:13 GMT
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Organization: The Computer Solution Company, Inc.
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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.

Gee, that sounds kinda unreasonable. ;-)

>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.

This is one way.

>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?

None that I know of.

>How about representing the signature as a font character?

Seems kinda exensive to download a entire font for just a signature.

>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?

Also seems kinda expensive.

I think what you are looking for has been done by Don Lancaster.  Don
is a PostScript _GOD_, and has written things that IMHO are some of the BEST
examples of PostScript ever generated.  I don't have his address since he
stopped his "Ask the Guru" column in "Computer Shopper", but somebody
on the net should be able to help. (Any takers??, Please post as I want
to know also. E-Mail address would be GREAT.)  One of the articles dealt
specificly with putting a PostScript signature in a document.
Claimed all that was needed was a piece of graph paper, a safety pin,
and patience.

>Terry R. Friedrichsen

>terry@venus.sunquest.com  (Internet)
>uunet!sunquest!terry	  (Usenet)
>terry@sds.sdsc.edu        (alternate address; I live in Tucson)

>Quote:  "Do, or do not.  There is no 'try'." - Yoda, The Empire Strikes Back