It may sound crazy, but there are plenty of reasons to scan your signature and turn it into an image file. Chief among them is convenience: When you receive an electronic document (Word file, PDF, etc ...

Transforming a scanned signature into vector artwork in Adobe Illustrator offers several advantages. First, you can enlarge the resulting drawing exponentially without pixelation or distortion. Second ...

At one point or another, we've all gone through the print-sign-fax dance to return a signed document, but the Productivity501 weblog details how to create a high quality scanned signature that you can ...

No. Such "signatures" have a purely esthetic value. Once it gets on the user's screen, it can be captured and replicated. If you want real signing you have to look into PGP and the like (eg.