[Macworld]

Post your comments for Sign electronic documents with your own handwritten signature here

[HvT]

And what is to prevent anyone from copying the signature, and pasting it into another document?

[Moebius]

Ah, you don't have to worry about that. Nothing bad ever happens on a Mac. ;-)
BTW, I own a Mac and love it. I just get tired of people saying that Macs are not vulnerable to anything.

[Strawtag]

The signature graphic in this case has simply been added to the actual digital signature. Applying the digital signature must be accomplished using the same presumably secure method(s) required before the graphic was added.
Is this option available for Acrobat 8?

[Macalways]

HvT said:

And what is to prevent anyone from copying the signature, and pasting it into another document?

If it is a real concern, perhaps this will help: http://www.abanet.or...g-tutorial.html

[ajmac25]

If you do not have Acrobat and do not want to pay the high price for it, try PDF Pen. It allows you to add signatures to PDFs and insert text. I use it daily and it works well. There is also a PDF Pen Pro version, but did not see the need for it. I use Preview and PDF Pen for all my documents and avoid the pain of Acrobat.
http://www.smileonmymac.com/PDFpen/

[zekegri]

I use my Wacom tablet-make a signature in Photoshop-save as transparent 24 bit .Png then just insert into forms.

[RosscoR]

This article, as evidenced by the comments, is confusing. A digital signature is not a scanned holographic image. It's a cryptographically generated identity that can't be tampered with or copied. The scanned image is just a flourish, it's not constitutes the actual signing.

[zekegri]

Please explain to us how to generate the digital signature then.

[slswift]

I think tomorrow's article will explain more about the actual digital signature.

[himbo]

Moebius said:

Ah, you don't have to worry about that. Nothing bad ever happens on a Mac. ;-)

BTW, I own a Mac and love it. I just get tired of people saying that Macs are not vulnerable to anything.

Yeah, and an article that has nothing to do with the computing platform used seems like the perfect place to make an irrelevant Mac wisecrack.

Brilliant.

[rab777hp]

I prefer the old pen and paper style, much more secure

[hayesk]

Moebius said:

Ah, you don't have to worry about that. Nothing bad ever happens on a Mac. ;-)

BTW, I own a Mac and love it. I just get tired of people saying that Macs are not vulnerable to anything.

Nobody actually says Macs are not vulnerable to anything. That's just a straw-man argument people come up with because they can't make a real argument against the Mac's relative security advantage.

[mournac]

Does it work with Acrobat 8?