Problems signing and e-mailing documents.

[Albion]

I hope this is the correct forum to ask this in, seems the most relevant.

Lately we've been getting a lot of .pdf (Acrobat) and .doc (Word) files in E-mail or on the Internet that require a signature. Most of the times the sender requires us to either post the file back to the Internet or e-mail it back to them. Is there a way other then printing, signing, and scanning the document or scanning a signature that people are using. Obviously we are not the only company who's getting documents like these and there has to be a better way then scanning the document or a more secure way then scanning a signature to get this accomplished.

Thanks for your help.

 

[joegz]

Technically speaking you can always have a signature image file like a .jpg created and then insert this into the document so that it looks like it is signed. But doing so in a PDF file is not really possible (well actually you can do it but it involves quite a lot of steps and you have to do it in Acrobat Writer using the touch up tool)

But the other question though that crosses my mind would be does adding the image to the file actually make it a legal document. Just a thought. joegz
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