Preview signatures

[gavspen]

Does anyone know where the jpegs of signatures that you can add to docs in Preview reside? I dont have a camera on my Mac, which is the only way they give you to get the sigs in there (or a trackpad, which I also dont have.) I have to go to my wife's laptop, down 2 flights of stairs, every time I want to add a sig. Très annoying.

If I could copy and paste the jpegs to the correct folder, that would work, right? I was hoping it would be obvious...Application Support.. but that would be waaaaay too easy. Where are they?

Thanks,
Gavin

[mikehalloran]

Does anyone know where the jpegs of signatures that you can add to docs in Preview reside? I dont have a camera on my Mac, which is the only way they give you to get the sigs in there (or a trackpad, which I also dont have.) I have to go to my wife's laptop, down 2 flights of stairs, every time I want to add a sig. Très annoying.

If I could copy and paste the jpegs to the correct folder, that would work, right? I was hoping it would be obvious...Application Support.. but that would be waaaaay too easy. Where are they?

Thanks,
Gavin

I don't have the answer to your question but I edit files in Preview all the time.

1) The easiest way is to export it as .png — now all the normal cut/copy/paste functions work exactly as you expect. My signature file is another .png — I open it, draw a box around the image and Copy, then Paste into my other file and move the image to the correct location, resize by dragging a corner as needed. Print to .pdf when done gives you a better image than Export to .pdf. In the Print preview box, I usually have to Scale the image back to a decent size.

2) Open the .pdf in Preview, use the Annotate/Text tool to type a signature and move the box into place. Save

3) This method is convoluted but it works:
https://apple.stackexchange.com/questio ... e%20image.

[gavspen]

I don't have the answer to your question but I edit files in Preview all the time.

1) The easiest way is to export it as .png — now all the normal cut/copy/paste functions work exactly as you expect. My signature file is another .png — I open it, draw a box around the image and Copy, then Paste into my other file and move the image to the correct location, resize by dragging a corner as needed. Print to .pdf when done gives you a better image than Export to .pdf. In the Print preview box, I usually have to Scale the image back to a decent size.

2) Open the .pdf in Preview, use the Annotate/Text tool to type a signature and move the box into place. Save

3) This method is convoluted but it works:
https://apple.stackexchange.com/questio ... e%20image.
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Thanks Mike. 1 and 3 are *sort of* the same thing, right? If you use method 2 the sig just looks like text though, correct?

Gavin

[mikehalloran]

I don't have the answer to your question but I edit files in Preview all the time.

1) The easiest way is to export it as .png — now all the normal cut/copy/paste functions work exactly as you expect. My signature file is another .png — I open it, draw a box around the image and Copy, then Paste into my other file and move the image to the correct location, resize by dragging a corner as needed. Print to .pdf when done gives you a better image than Export to .pdf. In the Print preview box, I usually have to Scale the image back to a decent size.

2) Open the .pdf in Preview, use the Annotate/Text tool to type a signature and move the box into place. Save

3) This method is convoluted but it works:
https://apple.stackexchange.com/questio ... e%20image.

Thanks Mike. 1 and 3 are *sort of* the same thing, right? If you use method 2 the sig just looks like text though, correct?

Gavin

(3) keeps it as a pdf without converting to tiff/jpeg/png first. The result is the same. (1) takes less time which is why I normally use it but some locked documents won't let you.

(2) takes the least amount of time but it is text. When I was in (someone's) legal department, it was considered acceptable by the attorneys to whom I answered.

[James Steele]

I'm not sure if this will help anyone, but I use this frequently when clients want a W-9 form, etc. and I have to sign and date PDFs. It was last updated in 2018 but working for me under Mojave. Not sure if it will work under later operating systems:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pdf-signe ... 1079?mt=12

[gavspen]

Thanks Guys. One or the other of these solutions will do it I'm sure.

In case you care, I asked Apple and the 1st level guy went off to talk to some higher level guy who said, it's complicated. When you take that pic of your sig in Preview, it gets encrypted in some way, and it isnt just "in a folder someplace". Oh well.