• (cs) in reply to Tom
    Tom:
    I saw 60-page documents scanned and pdf'd. When I asked why, they said it was because they wanted to have a signature on the last page. "But they're so big no one will ever be able to download them!" "But we have to have the signature!"

    This is the main reason for this kind of media conversion: the lack of comprehensive, secure and widely recognized standard for "electronic signatures".

    Oh, yes, before you start complaining: read at leastElectronic signatures on Wikipedia.

    Electronic signatures today have many technical complex implementation implications, require considerable organizational preparations and their legal applicability and defensability is often immediately clear for the lay person. These are the main causes that still lead to the use of traditional handwritten signatures (which are simple to use and intuetively for everybody, are recognized and accepted worldwide and legally impeccable.

  • Tim (unregistered)

    During the acquisition of another company, I had to request copies of contracts and other documents from the acquirees. I was pleased to find that they had the documents in PDF and were able to email them directly to me, so I didn't have to deal with getting reams of faxed documents.

    Turned out that they don't own a scanner, so they got around it by faxing the documents to one of those eFax-like services from their fax machine, which produced a PDF that they could then email. Fortunately, nobody told them about the wooden table.

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