Mac 101: Capture your signature using OS X Lion's Preview app

as for me, i always use this tool to record screen http://www.macvide.com/Macvide_screencap/, it's simple and nice!)

if you get autograph (free: http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/32996/autograph) you can write your signature on a multitouch trackpad with your finger, which imo is easier

I just paid $22.87 for an iPad2-64GB and my girlfriend loves her Panasonic Lumix GF 1 Camera that we got for $38.76 there arriving tomorrow by UPS. I will never pay such expensive retail prices in stores again. Especially when I also sold a 40 inch LED TV to my boss for $675 which only cost me $62.81 to buy. Here is the website we use to get it all from, BidsGet.com

Now that we've captured it in Preview, is there a way to insert it into Pages documents or import it into other programs?

Great addition to Preview, love it!

Just for fun, line your face up to the blue line…. creates a remarkable BW sketch of your dear mug. =)

Truly a paperless office! Now excuse me whilst I write my signature onto a piece of paper so I can scan it in.

Clever! I hade made my own by the past in Tiff format but this integration is very handy. More I use Lion, more I love it!!

I've been doing this for years using a program called PDFpen, which also lets you add text to documents. For example, you can use it to fill out scanned PDF forms. With PDFpen, you can even modify text that's already there (but not scanned text).

But this looks pretty quick and easy for adding signatures. Combined with Preview's annotation features, I might not need PDFpen very often any more. Nice Job(s), Apple.

I'm surprised how paperless I've become in my work and home life. My ink jet printer at home complains that the ink cartridges are past their expiration date long before it complains of low ink. I have a laser printer, and I'm dreading the day when I have to replace the expensive toner cartridges, but who knows when that will be. It's been years, and still I'm using the anemic starter cartridges that came with it.

Interesting that Lion would say "iSight" and not "Facetime".

Actually, not in the Annotations toolbar: not sure what version you're using, but I found it (eventually) in the Preferences. Then I have to hit Accept for the camera to actually turn on. Finally, it works.

Deleted that one, repeated the same process, and then I see the note "To add a Signature to a PDF, use the Signature pop-up menu in the Annotations toolbar."

No one else had this same sequence of events?