Am I able to put my digital signature in a document? If so, then how?

This did not work for me in Pages 6.1.

I could copy the signature in Preview, which I verified by pasting it a few times back in the original document.

When I switch over to Pages and attempt to paste it in, I just get the error sound and nothing happens. Maybe you need to make some kind of element to paste it into, I don't know, not very intuitive Apple.

"…why not make that available to other applications?"

Not a question that can be acted upon or answered here in this user to user community.

Provide xxx Feedback to Apple, using the third item in the Application menu in the application you'd like to see this added to. (The Application menu in Pages is named "Pages")

Regards,

Barry

I've never done it but I believe you can use Preview but it's only for .pdf documents. Look in the Preferences of the app.

I've done it many times using a scanned image of my signature. I save the signature as a transparent .png file & then drag & drop that file onto my Pages document. I use the transparency because my name has several letters that go below the baseline & the transparency makes any line show through.

This is now possible in Preview .app in Lion (OSX 10.7).

Export or Print your Pages document to a .pdf file and open that in Preview .app

To set the signature:

Menu > Preferences > Signature > Create Signature > Hold up your signature on a piece of white paper to the Mac's camera > as straight as possible on the blue line in the Signature Preview pane > Accept

Applying the Digital Signature in OS X Lion Preview

Open the PDF > Toolbar > Annotations (pencil icon) > Signatures button (blue S) > click in the document where you want the signature to appear

Peter

Unfortunately, this is not a true Digital Signature. A digital signature involves a cryptographic certificate (through a Smart Card or other Soft Certificate) and provides non-repudiation that the person signing the document actually signed the document. A photo/scan/image of a written signature isn't a true digital signature.

Is a true digital signature possible in Pages?

Alex

The OP did not ask for a true digital signature, we respond to what people ask.

Pages only has provision for passwording a document.

If you want to add a cryptographic digital signature you will need to attach that to a pdf created in Pages then encrypted using Adobe Acrobat Pro.

Peter

Please help - I follow the instructions but the signature never appears. I have tried placing the signature on a line, as well as on whitespace within the pdf file I am trying to sign. I've clicked; double-clicked; used the control-click; selected an area and then tried to apply signature to that selection - No matter what I try, the signature never appears.

Here is annotations bar and signature - so I know the signature is there, I just can't figure out how to make the signature appear in the pdf form I'm trying to sign. Please help.

I seem to have the same problem. I have the signature saved in Preview, but when I convert the Pages doc to PDF and open it in preview, its locked. I can't click anywhere in the doc to add the signature.

Okay, I got it in Preview. But, is there a way to do this in Pages? I'd like to be able to add my signature and still be able to edit the doc later.

Did you try what I suggested earlier in this thread? Take that signature you wrote on paper to take a picture of for Preview & scan it with a scanner. Then save it as a transparent .png file & insert that into your Pages documents. I use GraphicConverter to crop the image & make the background transparent.

What is GraphicConverter? How do I save as a transparent .png? I saved it as a .png, but it just put a huge box in the middle of my pages doc, I couldn't figure out how to get it where I wanted it.

GraphicConverter is a very well-known & highly-thought-of shareware graphics program by Thorsten Lemke.

Use the selection tool (upper right of the toolbox to select just the area of your signature & then type ⌘ Y to trim the excess & save the file. Then use the transparency wand & click in the background to make it transparent.

To move the image around in your Pages document, you need to make it floating.

Just grab the corner of the signature image and drag it down to shrink it, then click away and click on the edge of the graphic and cut and paste it into a position in your text where you want it.

It is just a graphic.

Peter

The simplist way to add a signature to your Pages document is Share your document and Export as a PDF. From there, you can open that document in Preview, use your Signature pop-up menu in the Edit tool bar. Of course, once it's in PDF you'll won't be able to edit the document.