How to Sign/Date a PDF and Email the Document?

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A search of the KM forum for "sign a pdf" returns some hits, one of which is this:

Signing documents with one key stroke using PDFPenPro

Because my company and most of our clients are only half way to a fully digital process, I need to "sign" many pdf documents a week by adding an image of my signature and initials. This saves me hours of a "print" - "sign" - "scan" routine, but can still be tedious: open, import image, move image around, copy, paste, etc..... I've developed a small routine in AppleScript which I call using a KM macro, and others may find interesting. There's a particular twist that I learned courtesy of Dr Dran…