so... does anyone know if signatures drawn using Adobe Illustrator, or equivalent, count?
yes it is mini-proposal season and the e-mails and faxed are humming
I actually played with illustrator to see if I could do a convincing signature writing with a mouse - couldn't quite pull it off and was reduced to finding a working scanner - we've gone rapidly from The One Precious Scanner, too scanners littering every desktop, to The One Precious Scanner Which Still Works
Funny that
'cause scanned sigs pasted into PDFs count, which seems slightly risque, espcially given federal agencies proclivity for sending TIFF files with random signatures on them to everyone and their cousin
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In the court of Britton, the only thing that makes a signature yours is the fact that you did it. Any shape or line made by your actions, pen, mouse, or other, should count.
If you're talking about what constitutes a signature legally, the sound-bite version is that anything intended as a signature is a signature. (This can include acts by third parties if "ratified": if my two-year old scribbles something on a signature line of a document and I take it to a notary public and say "This is my signature," I have signed it.
("Sound-bite version equals roughly "This is not legal advice.")
In the context of email or similar transmissions, the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act (which according to the
National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws web site has been enacted in 48 states) defines an "electronic signature" as "an electronic sound, symbol, or process attached to or logically associated with a record and executed or adopted by a person with the intent to sign the record."