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Assessing your requirements…

We want you to be thrilled with the quality and capabilities your SoftSign™ Fonts set. To help insure that, it is necessary that you understand certain basics about how software fonts work and hence what SoftSign™ Fonts can do and what’s involved in doing it.

How software fonts work:

• A font must be available on a computer in order to use it and print (or fax) files that use it. This means that if you use a specific font in an e-mail or other file that you send to other people, they will not see that font’s characters unless that font is available on their computer.
  
  
• How can you make a font available on a computer in order to see its characters in a document?
  
  
  • The conventional way is just to install it on the computer.
    
    
  • However, there is another way because certain computer applications (most notably, Adobe Acrobat), make it possible to embed a font or a subset of its characters within a file that uses it. A font whose characters are embedded in a file will be visible when viewing that specific file even if the font has not been conventionally installed on the computer.

What SoftSign™ Fonts can do and what’s involved in doing it:

• SoftSign™ is intended primarily for signing documents with handwritten signatures and printing or faxing signed documents, not for sharing computer files that contain signatures with other people or computers.
  
  
• SoftSign™ can be used for sharing computer files that contain signatures with other people or computers, but only with people who, or computers that, have access to a copy of the same SoftSign™ font.

Can I use SoftSign™ to…

	Create documents containing “handwritten” signatures?	Yes	Just install either the SoftSign font or the SoftSignNE font — or both — on your computer. Run an application, select your signature font and strike a single key to place your signature. Select Print in your application’s File menu to print or fax the file that contains your signature.
	Print documents containing “handwritten” signatures from a computer?	Yes
	Fax documents containing “handwritten” signatures from a computer?	Yes
	Share computer files containing “handwritten” signatures?	Yes, but…	Your signature will be visible only if: Those with whom you share your signed files have a copy of your SoftSign™ font installed on their computer or You use your SoftSign font to embed your signature in the file that you share.
	Sign e–mails with “handwritten” signatures?	Yes, but…	Your signature will be visible only if your e–mail recipients have a copy of your SoftSign™ font installed on their computer.

If you have any questions about SoftSign™ Fonts, we encourage you to contact us before proceeding…