How to add your signature to the document using Preview

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Not everyone knows that the Preview in OS X Lion and Mountain Lion makes it easy to add his signature to documents without having to print the document. We suggest you familiarize yourself with brief instructions for creating and adding his signature to documents via Preview.

1. open the document

Regardless of the format of the document Preview allows you to add a signature to any document that can be opened in that application.

2. Create your signature

After opening the document to be signed, go to the Preview -> Preferences and select the Signatures tab.

Press "+" or the Create Signature, resulting in the signature creation window will appear.

Preview digitizes signature using FaceTime, therefore, take a piece of white paper, paint and show these things work chamber. The variant of creating a vector version of the signature image.

3. Add a signature to a document

Thus, the digital version of the signature is created, it is necessary to add it to the document. Go to Tools -> Annotate -> Signature. A panel from which you can add a signature to the document. Of course, the signature can be placed in the desired location on the document and change its size, thanks to vector format size change will not affect the quality of the signature.