Help with Autograph
Getting Started with Autograph
- 1. Download and drag to your Applications folder to install.
- 2. Launch Autograph. You will see a black A on the toolbar in the upper right-hand corner or your screen. Autograph will run in the background while you go about your business elsewhere on your laptop.
- 3. When you're ready to sign, click on the A, or use the hotkey (the default setting is Ctrl+Cmd+A) to open the signature window. Sign with your finger or Pogo Sketch on your trackpad.
- 4. If satisfied with your signature, hit enter to accept or escape to clear the window and sign again. Your signature will be inserted immediately into the document you are working on.
- 5. Remember you can always three-finger-swipe left or right to undo/redo. It's also fun to hold down spacebar. This will let you position your pen without inking.
- Registering Autograph
- General Preferences
- Stroke Preferences
- Export Preferences
- Autograph Help Index
Autograph Tips and Questions
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How can I sign a .pdf document using Autograph?
With Microsoft Word 2008:
- 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.
- Open your signature page in Preview, then save it in .png format. Fire up Autograph, and drop in a signature. Be careful where you place it because preview does not allow editing. You can now resave the signature page back to .pdf format.
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 is configured to save to your desktop, and make sure PNG format is selected.
Click the image icon in GMail, and choose the new image on your desktop, Autograph.png.
Fully Compatible Programs
Pages, Keynote, Acrobat, Mail, iChat, FileMaker Pro, Numbers, Word 2008, Excel 2008, Entourage, Stickies, PDFPen, SeaMonkey, Outlook (as recipient)
Why isn't Autograph working?
First, make sure your computer is compatible. If you haven't already seen it, the compatibility information is here. Also, make sure your program is compatible, and is not configured for plain text only. Another good idea is to reset Autograph preferences from the General Preferences pane. Lastly, make sure your trackpad isn't disabled. You can change that here.
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
