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> I print regularly, plenty of stuff requires signatures, and being safe when travelling.

Lifehack: you can annotate a PDF with a signature and just send it to the receiver.

The only time I couldn't do that was when I needed a notarized document.

> Regarding travelling, is no fun when something happens trying to show the ticket from an app that for whatever reason decides not to start, or having the phone dying on me. Paper to the rescue.

Yup. I save screenshots of barcodes for tickets and other stuff instead. I have a second phone as a backup :)

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> Lifehack: you can annotate a PDF with a signature and just send it to the receiver.

No I cannot, because they won't be accepted by the receivers I work with.

https://pypi.org/project/look-like-scanned/

Where in my comment did I stated the documents had to be given back scanned?

Why the negativity? Why not just say that you need to provide original paper documents?

The previous comment was just trying to be helpful.

Had I explicitly mentioned scanning, I would have welcomed, I didn't.

A more polite, charitable response might have been "My job is _____ and in this field it's required for documents to be delivered by courier." You haven't made it clear why you necessitate printing in your workflow, just that it's required and that anyone who thinks otherwise clearly doesn't understand _your job_ as well as you do.

Nobody thinks you're clever or cool for shutting down someone trying to be helpful.

====> Work stuff requires offline archives for contracts and legal stuff

Easy enough for anyone that decides to read before doing clever comments.

Should we also discuss the semantics of what offline means?

I don't think I'd want to discuss anything with you, actually. You come off as a remarkably sour individual.

Well, a nice way to start is not provide feedback that wasn't asked for.

In Germany we have a word for it, Besserwisser.

That's probably for the better & no they do not.

they stated that they print regularly, then without knowning anything of their use case and needs, came the "ackchyually" like they know it better or the original commenter is an idiot, why is it so unfathomable that they have done their research

I'm searching for something that would stamp a custom date on a PDF, like "Received\n$(date)".

I'm solely printing my stuff to stamp a date and then scanning them back... Haven't found anything yet.

The general trick I’ve found for things like this is the missing step is to first convert the PDF to image files, THEN watermark it with the dynamic date, then convert back to PDF.

Which is a pain in the ass to automate but effective.

wet signatures are a thing.

Wet signatures are also a thing to avoid updating ancient procedures. I looked into the legal requirements for needing a wet signature (in my jurisdiction) and it turns out that they are rarely required. You need one when buying a house, but you need them for very little else.

I told the credit card company that demanded that I mail them letter with a wet signature to just accept a scanned PDF or lose my business and after a few emails back and forth they simply relented (admittedly, this was a few years ago).

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