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At that point, you'll have something like this: (2) I recommend cropping the signature by dragging the mouse from the upper left to the lower right and selecting theĬrop selection. (1) Run IrfanView and open the file that has your scanned signature. Here are the steps for making your signature background transparent after installing IrfanView: For this situation, you don't need them, unless your scanned signature is in a PDF file, in which case you Although I recommend adding the PlugIns to get PDF support, that's for general, future usage. Install IrfanView first, then install the PlugIns. Installing the PlugIns is optional – required only if you want PDF support (and the other features that come with the PlugIns). PlugIns, which are needed to give you PDF capability. IrfanView, excellent (and free!) imaging software:Īt the URL above, click the Download link on the left to download IrfanView and click the PlugIns link on the left to download the The solution described in this article requires a product called Here's an example of the problem, showing how the surrounding document is overlaid when the non-transparent signature is placed on a PDF (in this case, via the Custom Stamp feature in Adobe Acrobat): The Original Poster has a scanned signature and wants to make the background transparent so that the signature may be placed on documents without obliterating the surrounding text. Note: The image is pasted and has a square surrounding the image with dots y the borders to re-size the image.Question here at Experts Exchange. Paste the image cmd+v in the exported file JPG.Select the image cmd+a and copy the image cmd+cĪt this moment you have 3 files open the original PDF(1), the exported JPG(2) and the image file (3) all of them with Preview.Open the exported file from PDF which at this moment is in JPG(is that clear?).Open the image you want to add with Preview.Export it as a JPG with the highest resolution (That's what I did, not sure if it works with lower resolution).Open your PDF where you want to add the image with Preview.And also don't use another app or software. Not just add a new page in the pdf with an image. I spend a lot of time reading the "solutions" and no one was able to do what I want: Paste an image or photo in the middle of the content PDF pdf.
