Preview has deleted all my signatures, won't let me save new ones!

Hello


I have four saved signatures in Mac Preview (or did have!)


I've just done my usual - save a Pages doc as a PDF so I can then digitally sign it, but when I open the PDF, I click the signature icon in Markup and nothing's there... These sigs have been in my Mac for well over five years!


What's more, even when I create a new sig, it's not only not adding to the opened PDF document, it too is not saving to my signatures... I've tried adding a sig using my trackpad 5x in the last hour.


Have re-launched Preview twice, and re-booted Mac today twice already.


What now, please?!


Cheers.

MacBook Air Apple Silicon

Posted on Feb 13, 2023 06:19 AM

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Feb 13, 2023 06:59 AM in response to RaphaeliteGirl

Perhaps an aspect in the Apple Support document will assist >>


link below


Fill out and sign a PDF form in Preview on Mac - Apple Support (CA)


Excerpt from above link


  • Create a signature using your computer’s built-in camera: Click Camera. Hold your signature (on white paper) facing the camera so that your signature is level with the blue line in the window. When your signature appears in the window, click Done. If you don’t like the results, click Clear, then try again.
  • Create a signature using your iPhone or iPad: Click Select Device to choose a device (if more than one is available). On your device, use your finger or Apple Pencil (on iPad) to sign your name, then tap Done. If you don’t like the results, tap Clear, then try agai




Feb 13, 2023 01:45 PM in response to Owl-53

As promised and have just successfully created an new Signature


This was created on a M2 MBA with Ventura and using the Preview Application


With a hand printed P. Phillips ( not real signature lol ) used the Builtin Camera


Method was Create Signature and Tab at Next Camera and presto and viola Signature


Refer to below



Feb 13, 2023 11:04 AM in response to RaphaeliteGirl

Will have to experiment when I get on the M2 MBA with Ventura 13.2


only to compare sometime in High Sierra macIS 10.13 used the built in camera in old iMac to create a really signature


Have gone through maybe 10 -12 new machine since then


The same signature had followed me around on every machine up to and including Venture on two M-class computers


will try and get back to you

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