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From: jad@dayton.UUCP (J. Deters)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: signatures in PostScript
Keywords: PostScript  signatures   bitmaps   cleverness
Message-ID: <7697@dayton.UUCP>
Date: 19 Feb 91 19:35:40 GMT
References: <13137@sunquest.UUCP> <1991Feb4.181613.22256@tcsc3b2.tcsc.com> <1340@ecicrl.ocunix.on.ca>
Reply-To: jad@dayton.DHDSC.MN.ORG (J. Deters)
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Organization: The Department Store Division of Dayton-Hudson Corporation
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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.

>clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis) responds:
>Technical solutions are possible and sexy I guess, but it begs the question:
>Why don't you get him to manually sign *one* copy of it, and then photocopy
>it for the rest of the 1499?  Surely it would be easier and faster to
>do your production run on a photocopier than many hours on the poor little
>printer.  Besides, I don't think I'd like having my signature on line in
>such a convenient format for duplication.

Our "poor little printers" are $17,000 jobs that spit paper out four times
faster than our copiers, and every "copy" is an "original".  We also have
these "poor little printers" installed in 61 stores from Ohio to the Dakotas.

Remember that all kinds of sites receive news -- schools, small companies,
and Fortune 500 firms.  Please don't presuppose that everyone who asks a
question is the only one to whom the answer applies.

We're using PostScript more and more for distributed printing of everything
from signs to UPC books to purchase order forms to inventory control tags.
When the Grand Poobah of Human Resources has a memo going to all executives
at all locations, our Electronic Message System is a helluva lot cheaper than
hauling stuff from our graphic services to the trucks and shipping it all
over the place.  Anytime we can say something with PostScript, we say it with
fewer dollars.

I'll grant you that the value of a digitized signature isn't worth its
weight in used toner cartridges, but it carries the same weight as a
reproduced signature.

I, for one, would be ecstatic to have my initials and/or signature available
for inclusion on memos that go out.  If someone would post Don's "digitizing
method", I'd be most grateful.

-j, besides, I kinda like the idea of having the boss' signature on line...
-- 
J. Deters
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