Cups Printing System Open-Source Development Has Seemingly Dried Up

Re:Cups Printing System Open-Source Development Has Seemingl... by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Thursday October 15, 2020 @10:00AM (#24788724)

I once wrote my signature on a piece of white paper and scanned it in. Then used paint.net to delete the white parts and save it as a transparent PNG.

Now I just paste that over the appropriate place on electronic documents and email it back.

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Re:Cups Printing System Open-Source Development Has Seemingl... by ljoshua on Thursday October 15, 2020 @10:03AM (#24788749)

PSA: For those on macOS, the Preview app has taken this exact concept and built it in for a while now, and I use it all the time. Clicking and dragging on my signature has saved me countless times.

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Re:Cups Printing System Open-Source Development Has Seemingl... by Brian_K_White on Thursday October 15, 2020 @07:29PM (#24795586)

I did that once while sitting in my car all right on my phone.

I was about to go in to something I couldn't blow off, and I couldn't blow off returning the mail as soon as possible either.

But I had a Note 4 phone and a working cell connection and managed to get it all done in a few minutes right there in my drivers seat.

I think I didn't even end up using the Note4's stylus but writing the signature on paper and taking a pic.

It was a while ago so I don't remeber exactly what I did or what apps I used. I probably tried a few different things on the spot before I found something that worked. Maybe the official adobe android app had signature support like the desktop app does now, or maybe I had to do it more manually with some other combination of apps, but I know that I went from receiving an email with a pdf attachment to returning that email with my own new pdf attachment all in about 15 minutes with nothing but my phone.

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Re:Cups Printing System Open-Source Development Has Seemingl... by 0xffff2 on Thursday October 15, 2020 @12:39PM (#24790581)

I did the same years ago. I've done everything from new job paperwork to buying a house to various government forms and I've yet to have anyone refuse to accept or even comment on the fact that my signature is a pixel-perfect copy on all documents.

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Re:Cups Printing System Open-Source Development Has Seemingl... by jessaustin on Thursday October 15, 2020 @11:54AM (#24789945)

Somehow I am always surprised when I use a new PDF tool and discover that it, like all the others, has failed to use transparency to make signatures look right. No real signature fails to cross something already on a document, but every time we get this stupid blank box around the signature...

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Re:Cups Printing System Open-Source Development Has Seemingl... by Brian_K_White on Thursday October 15, 2020 @07:54PM (#24795815)

I've been using a little app called Xournal on linux for years which does that just fine.

I have a 600dpi png file with black foreground and transparent background.

Xournal drops it anywhere right over the existing pdf image, resized and positioned at will, and the transparent parts are transparent.

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Re:Cups Printing System Open-Source Development Has Seemingl... by jessaustin on Thursday October 15, 2020 @08:07PM (#24795917)

Clearly I've been using the wrong tools... fortunately this isn't an extremely common task for me.

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Re:Cups Printing System Open-Source Development Has Seemingl... by 0xffff2 on Thursday October 15, 2020 @12:38PM (#24790569)

I find this rather amusing, because the much maligned Adobe Reader handles this just fine.

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