A lot of forms require a signature and you receive these forms via a PDF. The typical workflow is to print the PDF, sign the forms, and then rescan the document. I have a better workflow and it involves a new tool I have found. I’ll tell you about after the break
The tool I use is called PDFPen and is produced by Smile on My Mac. This is another of those companies who produce tightly focused products that are well documented for Applescript use. I originally bought PDFPen because of their OCR capabilities which I need for my receipts and other things i can into my Mac. I’ve blogged about using this product in conjunction with EagleFiler. Now I want to show another use for this product.
I product documents and forms that need someone to sign or fill out those forms. With this product I can fill out forms either with text fields or without fields. It allows me to add the fields, but the thing I find interesting is the signature capability.
This requires you to find a white sheet of paper. Sign it. Scan the paper with your scanner using a fairly high resolution. Use Acorn or another image edit program to crop around your signature. Save this file somewhere safe on your hard drive, an encrypted drive is best. You will now add this file to the PDFPen Library.
You access the library through the window menu; window>>library. The library window allows you to put files and images in a repository for late use with PDFs. The + button lets you find images and whatever to add to the library. You pull whatever you need from the library onto your PDFs, like your signature. Now you can sign forms without creating a physical document.
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