[rafeed]

Interesting, I've been happy using Preview.app for signatures by just downloading/saving as pdf and signing it through there. It's not as seamless as doing it online through this, but at least it's secure and easy to do, and Apple's had it available for a couple years now. I guess it's not much of a pain point for me to find another solution. Also, the fact that you have to use your mouse to sign it ensures a pretty crappy signature every time.

[guiseppecalzone]

Joseph here, cofounder of HelloSign.

Appreciate the feedback. We have a lot more signing options on HelloSign.com. For example, you can create a signature on HelloSign.com by:

1. Using your smartphone

2. Uploading a signature image

3. Typing it in

4. Drawing it in

For V1 of the Google Docs integration, we only added the draw it in option for Docs Add-ons. The other types are coming. Either way, if you want to upload a signature, you can still do it on our website and it’ll show up in Google Docs as saved.

Preview is useful, but there are a few reasons people still use us:

1. We’re closer to the documents than Preview

- You can sign directly in Google Docs, Gmail (https://www.hellosign.com/gmail), Google Apps, and elsewhere.

2. We do signature work flows.

- You can request signatures, cc key parties (like a cofounder or lawyer) and other business functionality.

3. We’re cloud based

- You can use us anywhere.

[bigd]

The feature he's saying is that mac os preview allows you to take a picture of a piece of paper with your signature on, and then places that in the pdf. You should implement this - or at least try it. There's no dragging mouse that will be ever be close to how natural this feels.

[mrkurt]

Disclosure: I'm a happy HelloSign user.

This is what HelloSign has done since the beginning. Take a picture with your phone, send the signature in, and you can attach it to most anything. It sounds like it's not directly exposed in the Google docs addon, but you can still jump to the full app to do it.

[jfarmer]

Does it work the same as Preview? Preview actually detects my signature on the page I'm holding up and creates a vectorized version of it automatically. It's not just a photo.

[corry]

+1 for Preview.app signatures. It's like magic. I hadn't had a 'wow' moment with any out-of-the-box OSX software until I set it up - but it's awesome.

[rschmitty]

Man.. not having been on OSX long discovering little things like this always puts a smile on my face, thank you!

[changdizzle]

Thanks for the feedback! In our standalone app (hellosign.com) you can type out a signature with our stock fonts and reuse it in your Docs add-on.