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Looking forward to using this next time I'm told I have to print, sign, and scan a document. I already have software setup to slightly rotate the page and add some grain, but this will add extra verisimilitude.

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    convert \
        -density 150 \
        -colorspace gray \
        +noise Gaussian \
        -rotate 0.5 \
        -depth 2 \
        "$1" \
        "$(echo "$1" | rev | cut -f 2- -d '.' | rev)-scanned.pdf"

You and me both. Maybe someone will find this useful: https://photocopy.fuglede.dk/

Nice! If only I knew this existed last month.

But they also needed a “company seal stamp” which I had to draw

And whenever you want to share a code snippet with someone, instead of using boring tools like Pastebin, use this instead:

https://code.xxut.ru/

Putting in a ruby snippet gives me a light-themed PyCharm with the filename being `scratch_1.txt`

Thanks, I hate it!

See falsisign: https://gitlab.com/edouardklein/falsisign

I made this a while back for fun -- changing the seed will add different artefacts to the page, rotate it, hole punches, and of course coffee stains: https://sublim.nl/scp/?seed=1234567

I legit had to google the word "verisimilitude"

Me too. What a wordsmith, I am in awe! not being sarcastic, I really do appreciate it

Huh, it's not a common word in English, right? Spanish being my mother tongue, it's not weird for me.

What would be a more anglo word with a similar meaning, if any?

Verisimilitude is the right word, most people I know would know it if they were going to be reading anything about LaTeX. It might be a cultural or regional difference, I am in Australia.

It's a perfectly good word, I didn't know it was unknown.

Truthiness or authenticity

Well, it's pretty common for me...

Now we just need a similar package to smudge and blot the signature slightly, and add a little ink spatter, for the fountain pen look.

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