{"id":3338,"date":"2016-03-16T13:14:39","date_gmt":"2016-03-16T13:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nist.ac.th\/eleict\/?p=3338"},"modified":"2018-02-02T07:35:29","modified_gmt":"2018-02-02T07:35:29","slug":"signing-digital-documents","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nist.ac.th\/technology\/knowledge-base\/signing-digital-documents\/","title":{"rendered":"Signing Digital Documents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Using preview, it&#8217;s very easy to digitally &#8216;sign&#8217; a document. This will save you the step of having to print it out, sign it, and scan it. Of course, use your discretion when using this trick (as in, I&#8217;m fairly certain passports and birth certificates might not be appropriate!). What&#8217;s extra cool is that in Yosemite you can use your trackpad to sign!<\/p>\n<p>1) Open preview.<\/p>\n<p>2) Find and click the Toolbox Icon:\u00a0<a href=\"\/eleict\/files\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-16-at-1.09.54-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3339\" src=\"\/eleict\/files\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-16-at-1.09.54-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-03-16 at 1.09.54 PM\" width=\"92\" height=\"31\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>3) Look for\u00a0an icon that looks like a signature:\u00a0<a href=\"\/eleict\/files\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-16-at-1.11.33-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3340\" src=\"\/eleict\/files\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-16-at-1.11.33-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-03-16 at 1.11.33 PM\" width=\"93\" height=\"38\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>4) You can now choose to either use your trackpad to write your signature, or to follow the directions to &#8216;copy&#8217; a version that you physically write on a piece of paper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using preview, it&#8217;s very easy to digitally &#8216;sign&#8217; a document. This will save you the step of having to print it out, sign it, and scan it. Of course, use your discretion when using this trick (as in, I&#8217;m fairly certain passports and birth certificates might not be appropriate!). What&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2947,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[586236,1154431],"ht-kb-tag":[814,869820],"class_list":["post-3338","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-digital-tech-tips","ht_kb_category-it-support2","ht_kb_tag-digital","ht_kb_tag-signature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nist.ac.th\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/3338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nist.ac.th\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nist.ac.th\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nist.ac.th\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2947"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nist.ac.th\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nist.ac.th\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/3338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15330,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nist.ac.th\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/3338\/revisions\/15330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nist.ac.th\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nist.ac.th\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=3338"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nist.ac.th\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=3338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}