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Electronic PE Seal and Signature

Electronic PE Seal and Signature

Electronic PE Seal and Signature

(OP)
Hello,

How do obtain an electronic PE stamp and signature that can be use on PDF documents? What is the best way to do this?

RE: Electronic PE Seal and Signature

scan in a copy. As far as I understand to be legal, it has to print out the exact size of the stamp, so it may take some messing around with the scanner to make sure its the proper size.

RE: Electronic PE Seal and Signature

Check with your state board. There are several encryption schemes allowed.

RE: Electronic PE Seal and Signature

I drew mine in AutoCAD. Seal and signature. Seal was long ago. Signature was recent (scanned it and traced over it). On the seal, it helps if your state has simple graphics.
A lot of states allow a reduced size to be used.

RE: Electronic PE Seal and Signature

I would scan the seal, but never the signature, as I always date the seal with the current date of expiration manually. Just my thing.

I don't know what it matters though as no one can ever read my signature. shocked

Mike McCann
MMC Engineering

RE: Electronic PE Seal and Signature

Regardless of the state laws, if someone wants to forge your seal and signature, they will. Easy in this day and age.

RE: Electronic PE Seal and Signature

Mike, hopefully someone can read your drawing.

BA

RE: Electronic PE Seal and Signature

Cute BA...real cute. rofl2

Mike McCann
MMC Engineering

RE: Electronic PE Seal and Signature

Most states, when allowing "electronic signing/sealing" are expecting an encrypted document that has little to do with how the graphic depiction looks. Taking a picture of your signature and seal is fine, as long as it accompanies an encryption scheme that either does not allow the document to be changed or alerts others that an unauthorized change has been made.

Adobe PDF(full version) can do this; however, not all states accept only the Adobe encryption scheme. Others require a commercial encryption signature that can be quite expensive per document.

RE: Electronic PE Seal and Signature

My state has actually relaxed the encryption requirement - leaving it up to the engineer to protect the sealing/signing of drawings as they see fit.

RE: Electronic PE Seal and Signature

I buy mine online - they send DWG and PDF versions

RE: Electronic PE Seal and Signature

I use print driver called pdffactory pro. Its 'letterhead' feature lets you create an overlay which can be applied to any document and saved as a pdf.

I can take my scanned seal and use it to create a letterhead which I then apply to the drawing sheets as they're printed to the driver. Each subsequent print job is added to the pdf and they all have the same seal as the overlay. The compiled file can then be saved with encryption, including a password if you want, to disallow changes or copying from the document.

(I also use it for correspondence with my actual letterhead and as a way to scan sketches and print them to to pdf with a letter-sized title block or calc sheet.)

RE: Electronic PE Seal and Signature

I got an electronic stamp from an online supplier. Works quite well.

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