SOCIAL: Cool Mac Tip: Sign your PDF documents

[Willo O'Brien]

Great tip, Deep, thank you! I even tweeted it this morning. :) 

Another tip is if you ever have documents handed or mailed to you that you'd have to fill out & fax or send - you can save yourself the scanning part by simply snapping a photo of them with your phone. 

Then email them directly to the person who wants them, or first to yourself to open in Preview & save as 8.5x11 PDF. 

Technology!
w




On May 25, 2012, at 10:26 AM, Amandeep Jawa wrote:

> I'm always surprised by all the techno-savy amongst us who don't get how regular people use computers.  Yes Eric, it was easy for *us* to do before, but it wasn't easy *enough* for 90% of the folks.
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> Each additional step of complexity makes it disproportionately more unlikely people are to use things.  That is why all the Treo, NOKIA and Windows Mobile people were left scratching their heads with the iPhone - "Wait our phones can do all those things!!?" - "Yes, but harder, uglier. more convoluted, and just less elegant."
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> On May 25, 2012, at 10:18 AM, Eric Arons <ericarons at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Although for those of us more like "Tim the Tool Guy", there's another way I've been using for years. It's called digitally scanning, clipping, storing, and then pasting.
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>> Does make me wonder how important signatures are on those kinds of documents.....
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>> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 10:02 AM, Allegra Hirschman <allegra.hirschman at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Awesome!  I was actually just struggling with this at this very moment!  The magical powers of social.
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>> Thanks
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>> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 9:56 AM, Amandeep Jawa <deep at deeptrouble.com> wrote:
>> I keep meaning to tell folks about this cool Mac OS 10.7 feature (Older Mac OS & Windows users I'm sure there are solutions out there, I don't know if there are any good free ones)
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>> If you get a lot of PDFs you have to sign & hate printing them out & faxing them or rescanning them, your Mac has built in* support  for letting you sign PDFs with your own signature.
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>> It is SUPER easy & I use it all the time now.
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>> http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/11777/os-x-lion-preview-add-signature-to-pdf-files/
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>> *Technically this is only true for Macs with a built in iSight camera - but I bet we can find a way around that if you have a scanned signature file, I just haven't tried.
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