On Sun, 25 Nov 2018 12:41:16 -0600 Gregory P. Ennis wrote:> ?topaz pieces of equipment called 'signature pads'?So the question that you're really attempting to ask is, "How can I obtain a linux- compatible signature pad". That's something that I've never gone looking for since the subject has never come up with the stuff that I do, but it seems to me that a signature pad is merely a small-format drawing tablet and that's a very old technology.??(There was a drawing tablet available for the Commodore 64.) So perhaps instead of looking for a "signature pad" what you really want is just a small drawing tablet like a Wacom for which linux drivers come built-in with Centos.? ------------------------------------------------------------ Frank, Thanks for your responses!!!! Yes, that is what I am looking for. I can certainly use a wacom board with gimp, but I was looking for a more automated process that will be performed by end users, and was hoping that someone on the list had crossed that bridge before. Greg
On Sun, 25 Nov 2018 16:04:23 -0600 Gregory P. Ennis wrote:> Yes, that is what I am looking for. I can certainly use a wacom board with > gimp, but I was looking for a more automated process that will be performed > by end users, and was hoping that someone on the list had crossed that bridge > before.Without doing a lot of research into exactly how to make this work, I suspect that you can do what you want here using a wacom tablet and something gthumb to capture the image, then a bit of bash scripting to glue what you got from that into your pdf using pdftk (since you're already doing that). Since you don't need to actually see the image on-screen, but rather just glue it into the pdf, you might be able to pull it directly from xf86-input-wacom, too. There's something to get you started, anyway. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~ www.melvilletheatre.com
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2018 16:26:58 -0600 On Sun, 25 Nov 2018 16:04:23 -0600 Gregory P. Ennis wrote:> Yes, that is what I am looking for.??I can certainly use a wacom board with > gimp, but I was looking for a more automated process that will be performed > by end users, and was hoping that someone on the list had crossed that bridge > before.Without doing a lot of research into exactly how to make this work, I suspect that you can do what you want here using??a wacom tablet and something gthumb to capture the image, then a bit of bash scripting to glue what you got from that into your pdf using pdftk (since you're already doing that). Since you don't need to actually see the image on-screen, but rather just glue it into the pdf, you might be able to pull it directly from xf86-input-wacom, too. There's something to get you started, anyway. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks Frank!!!! Greg