Create an EPS signature

The following assumes that you are using a Windows system with Synapse client installed.  This normally also installs Imagemagick.

1. You need to use a tablet PC, or some other drawing tablet so that you can draw a decent signature
2. Write your signature in MS Paint using the Paint tool with a slight thickness pen.
3. Make sure it is moderately large as we are going to reduce it later on ( this leads to better quality )
4. Move the signature to the top left and then shrink the white space to the very edge of the image
5. Save the image as signature.jpg
6. At the command line, use the Imagemagick tool "convert" to turn it into an EPS file
7. Eg. convert -resize 100x100 signature.jpg sig.eps
8. This also resizes your large image.
9. Use GSView to view the sig.eps file to make sure it is the right size for your prescription.
10. If it is too big or small, use different sizes in the above command line.
11. You can test it in the script template.  Put the sig.eps into c:\emr\client\sig.eps, or similar and then in your prescription template, try adding this
12. at 210x75 eps %/c/emr/client/sig.eps just above the showpage command
13. A yellow box appears in the test preview to indicate the approximate position
14. When printing, you use the [Local PDF] - requires R213B40.9 or higher.  Lower versions which use [ServerPDF] will disconnect the client
15. You now need to upload the EPS to your account so that it is available
16. In Settings/User/PostScript/E-Signature .. use the requester to find the sig.eps file, and  then click on [Upload]
17. Now modify your prescription template to
18. eg. at 210x75 e-signature
19. Now, when printing, you have the option of whether or not to include your electronic signature using the e-sign? checkbox.

For an alternative method using a scanned signature, try this:  Make E-signature with a signature scan