Help with Autograph for iOS
Autograph Settings
- Style:
Choose the color and line width for your signature. - Add date:
If enabled, today's date will be automatically added to each signature. - Show guideline:
Enables the guideline (x__________) image for signatures. - Auto-Send:
If you're always sending to the same computer, try enabling Auto-Send. The signature will be sent to your selected computer automatically. - Kiosk Mode:
This mode hides the settings icon, and turns the other icons into text buttons for easy use. We recommend using Kiosk Mode with Auto-Send for public-facing installations. - Autograph Help Index
Autograph Tips and Questions
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Can I use this on the road away from a wifi network?
You bet! If you have a Mac, follow these steps:
- From airport menu, click "Create Network"
- From your iPhone, join the new network.
- Wait about 20 seconds, and the computer name should appear in the Autograph list.
How can I sign a .pdf document using Autograph?
With Preview:
- Export the pdf into .tiff format. Open it, fire up Autograph, and drop in a signature. It usually shows up in the bottom left corner of the page. Be careful where you place it because preview does not allow editing later. You can now export the document page back into .pdf format. Note the document will now be a raster format and no longer searchable, similar to if you had printed and scanned it.
- Drag in the signature page of your PDF into a new Word document. Then, fire up Autograph to drop in a signature. Be sure to change the image wrapping to "in front of text" in Word after your signature appears. Then you can position it correctly.
- In Autograph, go to preferences and check save to desktop and select PNG format.
In the PDF in Acrobat, select the TouchUp Object Tool (Tools - Advanced Editing), right click on a blank space, and select "Place Image."
Navigate to desktop, choose PNG as type of image, choose your image, "autograph.png."
- PDFPen just works. It's an intuitive experience, with no surprises. Highly recommended. For multipage PDFs, click on the page where you want the signature in the main view before launching Autograph.
How can I insert a signature into GMail web interface?
First, you must enable inline images in GMail.
Read all about that here.
After that's settled, you'll see a picture icon in the toolbar when you start to compose an email.
Make sure Autograph Helper is configured to save to your desktop.
Click the image icon in GMail, and choose the new image on your desktop, Autograph.png.
Fully Compatible Programs
Pages, Keynote, Acrobat, Mail, iChat, Numbers, Word 2008, Excel 2008, Entourage, Stickies, PDFPen, SeaMonkey, Outlook (as recipient)
Why isn't Autograph working?
First, make sure your computer is compatible. It needs to be running Leopard (10.5) or Snow Leopard (10.6), as well as Autograph Helper.
Any Suggestions for MS Word?
It's often helpful to change the image wrapping to "in front of text" in Word after your signature appears. Then you can position it correctly, and sometimes it keeps the signature from showing up white instead of black.
Will the signature stand up in court?
We do not claim any legal consequence of electronically signing a document by using Autograph.
We feel the signature capture function of Autograph provides good Signer Authentication (i.e. it is difficult for another person to reproduce), but it does not attempt to authenticate the document being signed.
For example, a signature could be inserted into a PDF document, and the document could be later revised while retaining the signature.
For legal purposes, we recommend using a digital asymmetrical key encryption system to generate a hash result that will guarantee the document has not been altered. This should satisfy nearly any legal requirement.
For more information, please see: http://www.abanet.org/scitech/ec/isc/dsg-tutorial.html
For legal purposes, we recommend using a digital asymmetrical key encryption system to generate a hash result that will guarantee the document has not been altered. This should satisfy nearly any legal requirement.
For more information, please see: http://www.abanet.org/scitech/ec/isc/dsg-tutorial.html