Electronic Signature Pads

[d.paulson]

Has anyone here ever used an electronic signature capture pad made by Topaz Systems Inc. They have some examples fo using the pad with VB, but I cannot figure out how to print the signature image to a printer using VB code. Any ideas?

[dglienna]

Why would you want to do that?

[George1111]

Presumably you want to print signatures on letters - perhaps generated using Microsoft Word.

Yours Faithfully
George


If the Signature was captured to some kind if Image file eg, .JPG, .TIF, .BMP etc, then all you need do is drop it into an image box within the Word document, and it should print (Just create a different template for different authors / signatories) - In this case its just an image in a Word Document

If you want to do something completely different then best you explain a little more detail

[d.paulson]

The pad comes with an .ocx to be used. It has what looks like a picture box where what is captured from the pad is displayed in this picture box. This image can then be saved to a .bmp or a .sig file or saved to a database field. In a POS setting, the customer would sign the invoice or packing slip and the signature should appear on the printed document that is mailed back to the customer's head office. I was hoping not to need to save to a .bmp and reload it to a picture box to get printed.

[DataMiser]

You should be able to print the contents of the picture box. Seems like I have some code somewhere that I wrote to do that. I'll see if I can locate it here in a few.

[DataMiser]

Here we go

Printer.PaintPicture Reports.Db2ocx1.Picture, 2, 5, 48, 10

the numbers here indicate the location to print x,y and the size of the image for more info look at the printer object in your online help under methods paintpicture