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I just had to do the same thing. In my case someone sent me a DOC file, so I used OpenOffice to save it to a PDF, then used pdftopbm (came as part of xpdf RPM) to convert to a PBM graphics file. Then I loaded the file in Gimp along with a picture of my signature.. With Gimp, I loaded the signature as a second layer of the image, scaled to the right size and applied a layer mask to mask off everything but the signature ink itself and had the layer applied in "darken only" mode so that it would look natural on top of the existing lines on the page. I saved it to a TIFF file and uploaded it to my maxemail.com account to be faxed. Total cost to fax back a signed page to New Zealand from the US: $0.36. Time wasted: priceless. :-)<BR>
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Valient<BR>
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On Sat, 2003-12-20 at 06:44, Damon Lynch wrote:
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<PRE><FONT COLOR="#68151e"><I>Hi,
I need to add my signature and check a box on a PDF document, and fax
it. Although it's easy to fax within GNU/Linux, I don't have a scanner
(but I do have a scan of my signature); hence I want to electronically
alter the image that will be faxed.
One "brute force" method I can use is to take a screen shot and edit the
image in the Gimp. Is there a more elegant way?
Thanks
Damon
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