Do you put your signatures on newsletters in some special way as it reads as
if the signatures have been on a sheet of paper?
In this excerpt from Answercast #88 I show how I put my signature in each
newsletter so it looks like I signed it.
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It’s a PNG.
That works in an email or word processing where you can space things, but how do you add a signature to a form? If you have a pic, it would cover lines and possibly other wording unless the signature was the exact right size and none of your signature went below the sig line.
Lynn,
What you need is an image format (such as PNG) which supports “transparency”. Basically, rather than the image having a solid color as a background (which would cover anything under the image), the background is transparent, and anything under it shows through. (Just like a clear sheet of plastic on which you have drawn something.)
See, for example, the images at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Network_Graphics
@Lynn,
The only way you could put a picture in a form you are submitting is if the author of the form (the web designer) enabled HTML. Then you would have to have the image online someplace, and know the code to submit it.
Yup, I thought that this would be pretty swish, so I did a TIFF which looked like my best signature only-better; but it struck me that this could then be lifted-off by anyone who didn’t have my best interests at heart, and used for other motives; so I scrubbed the whole lot of them (there were a half-dozen or so).
The issue of worrying about someone “lifting” your signature is a valid concern, but they could that with access to anything that has your signature, original or pasted. I often insert my signature on letters and document, and then send the recipient a password protected PDF version of the communication. We have to realize that there really is no real fail-safe security in cyberspace nor the real world unless you simply decide to be a part of neither.
Charles and Les,
Seems like a good idea to only use your first name. That’s what Leo does.