May 4, 2010

Latex letter signature as image

By tom

Trying to place an image (scan of one’s signature) between the closing and the name in a letter will unfortunately not result in a nice formatting. Latex automtically adds some space for a manual signature between the closing and the printed name. This space will not automatically disappear if you place your signature as an image there. Neither will it disappear if you place the image directly in the \signature declaration. But, as you might have guessed, there is a work-around:

Remove the \signature{Your name} declaration (see this sample letter) and just replace the \closing{Yours Faithfully,} by:

\closing{Yours faithfully,\\
\fromsig{\includegraphics[scale=1]{signature.jpg}} \\
\fromname{Your name}
}

For more information, consider the documentation.

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13 Responses to “Latex letter signature as image”

Anil Duggirala
June 9th, 2010 at 4:30 pm

Thanks for that, the link for the sample letter doensnt include a graphics signature though.

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Hugh
July 22nd, 2010 at 9:29 pm

This saved me.

Thanks a lot.

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CB
September 16th, 2010 at 2:11 am

Be sure to include \usepackage{graphicx} in the beginning of your document.

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hqube
December 7th, 2010 at 3:27 am

Thanks. I’ve been looking for this. This one of the last reasons why I’m not using tex for most of my document needs. JPG/PNG didn’t work for me though. I used EPS instead.

I would just like to add; To ovelap the signature image with the signature name, add a negative \vspace before \fromname.

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noname
March 2nd, 2011 at 12:57 pm

“This space will not automatically disappear … “: it does if you set the parameter in [ ]: \closing{Sincerely, \\[0.0in] \includegraphics ….. name}.

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t
April 25th, 2011 at 7:16 pm

noname’s comment worked for me.

I was using \signature, but the extra space after \closing was annoying.

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Dennis
June 25th, 2012 at 4:26 am

Awesome hack, thanks!

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unixLover
October 16th, 2012 at 5:09 pm

This worked like a charm!!! thanks a lot!!!

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- tom
  October 17th, 2012 at 8:08 am
  
  Thanks for the feedback. Appreciate it. Tom.
  
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STK
November 3rd, 2012 at 9:13 pm
The above, while simple to implement, will not remove the space allocated for the signature block in the letter. It simply makes it “empty” space and adds the signature elements into the \closing{} text. LaTeX will still put in this space after the \closing{} text when compiling. This will cause an overflow and breaking to a new page prematurely. I found this out the hard way while trying to keep a letter to a single page.

You can change how \closing{} works by including the following in the header:
```
\renewcommand{\closing}[1]{\par\nobreak\vspace{\parskip}% 
\stopbreaks 
\noindent 
\ifx\@empty\fromaddress\else 
\hspace*{\longindentation}\fi 
\parbox{\indentedwidth}{\raggedright
	\ignorespaces #1\\[0.0in]% 
	\ifx\@empty\fromsig
		\fromname 
\else \fromsig \fi\strut}%
\par}
```
Then, just add the image to the \signature{} command as:
```
\signature{\includegraphics[height=.7in]{Signature.png} \\ Your Name}
```
and things should work fine with no extra (blank) space after the signature block.
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- tom
  November 14th, 2012 at 1:49 am
  
  Cool, thanks for the code! Best, Tom.
  
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ice
May 16th, 2013 at 12:30 am

Thanks, STK!

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