RE: Combining TIF Signature with Text

Hello Michael,

Sounds like you have a couple methods available to you that will already
work.

If you're open to other commercial options our iForms software can
generate merged PDF or TIF documents with a signature file using either
spool file data or data directly from a database. We can process TIF,
JPG and Bitmap files as signature file formats.

For more information feel free to check out our web site or contact our
sales team.

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Richard Schoen
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message: 1
date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 14:59:45 -0400
from: Michael Ryan <michaelrtr@xxxxxxxxx>
subject: Combining TIF Signature with Text

Looking for opinions...I've done this type of thing two different ways,
but
I'm looking for a better way...one with fewer moving parts. I have a
signature capture application that takes in a signature and produces a
small
file in TIF format. I upload the file to the IFS. I can then go in a
couple
of directions: leave it in TIF format, and use some convoluted
processing to
merge the signature and dynamic and static text (from an SCS spooled
file)
using a vendor tool into a TIF format file; or convert the signature to
an
AFP page segment, and then merge the signature onto an AFP overlay,
again
combining static and dynamic text. In either case, the output would be a
file containing combined text and signature.

My requirements are:

Send a TIF file of each combined text/signature to a trading partner;
Enable local users (using a PC viewer) to view the combined
text/signature
file.

I'd like to keep it all on the iSeries (V5R4) is possible. I know I can
do
this, but I'm looking for new ideas.

Thanks...