>> Thank you. I will have to check with the customer if he knows how to get his signature into a PNG file.
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>Dmitry, you may create a problem from nothing :) Beware making your customers scared by giving them technical talk. Ask for his signature in any format he is comfortable with and can produce fast and easy (text is Ok too :). Then you convert it to whatever format you like.
Thank you, Anatoliy. Your suggestion makes sense. And most likely I will end up working with the signature file anyway because most of my customers are fairly low-tech and would rather pay me than do it themselves. And it is helpful for me to understand the pros and cons of different graphical file formats mainly to make the printing more stable. My biggest concern is not really the size of the file (BMP vs JPG vs PNG) but rather to minimize a possible VFP error on working with this or that format. I would rather lose on speed and gain on stability than the other way around.
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