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signature page in Latex

I intend to make signature page in the following two different and separate formats.

Currently the code is showing the person name on top and signature line at the bottom. I would like to get as shown in the attached image along with the date at the bottom right.

• for the second format I couldnt figure out how to do –  Jack Commented May 26, 2019 at 3:31

Some notes:

• \bf is deprecated. Consider \textbf and \bfseries instead.
• If "Signature Page" should be one of your sections, you should consider use \section and do some settings for section using titlesec .

Code for the first layout

Code for the second layout.

A little change and you will get the second one.

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Latex letter signature as image.

Trying to place an image (scan of one’s signature) between the closing and the name in a letter will unfortunately not result in a nice formatting. Latex automtically adds some space for a manual signature between the closing and the printed name. This space will not automatically disappear if you place your signature as an image there. Neither will it disappear if you place the image directly in the \signature declaration. But, as you might have guessed, there is a work-around:

Remove the \signature{Your name} declaration ( see this sample letter ) and just replace the \closing{Yours Faithfully,} by:

For more information, consider the letter package documentation .

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23 comments.

9. June 2010 at 16:30

Thanks for that, the link for the sample letter doensnt include a graphics signature though.

22. July 2010 at 21:29

This saved me.

Thanks a lot.

16. September 2010 at 2:11

Be sure to include \usepackage{graphicx} in the beginning of your document.

20. March 2014 at 11:28

Thanks, This really helped

7. December 2010 at 3:27

Thanks. I’ve been looking for this. This one of the last reasons why I’m not using tex for most of my document needs. JPG/PNG didn’t work for me though. I used EPS instead.

I would just like to add; To ovelap the signature image with the signature name, add a negative \vspace before \fromname.

2. March 2011 at 12:57

“This space will not automatically disappear … “: it does if you set the parameter in [ ]: \closing{Sincerely, \\[0.0in] \includegraphics ….. name}.

25. April 2011 at 19:16

noname’s comment worked for me.

I was using \signature, but the extra space after \closing was annoying.

Including an image of your signature in a LaTeXed letter. « AmShazam.

25. September 2011 at 16:14

[…] coup of the morning: figuring out how to include a .jpg of my signature in my LaTeXed cover letter. Looks […]

25. June 2012 at 4:26

Awesome hack, thanks!

16. October 2012 at 17:09

This worked like a charm!!! thanks a lot!!!

17. October 2012 at 8:08

Thanks for the feedback. Appreciate it. Tom.

3. November 2012 at 21:13

The above, while simple to implement, will not remove the space allocated for the signature block in the letter. It simply makes it “empty” space and adds the signature elements into the \closing{} text. LaTeX will still put in this space after the \closing{} text when compiling. This will cause an overflow and breaking to a new page prematurely. I found this out the hard way while trying to keep a letter to a single page.

You can change how \closing{} works by including the following in the header:

Then, just add the image to the \signature{} command as:

and things should work fine with no extra (blank) space after the signature block.

14. November 2012 at 1:49

Cool, thanks for the code! Best, Tom.

2. November 2019 at 13:29

Thanks….very helpful

16. May 2013 at 0:30

Thanks, STK!

18. June 2014 at 23:23

you can use this to set the space between \closing and \signature

\@setplength{sigbeforevskip}{0pt}

19. June 2014 at 17:45

Cool, thanks! Tom

15. November 2015 at 21:08

Do I need a package for \fromname? It is giving a undefined control sequence error.

16. November 2015 at 11:20

This only works when using the LaTeX standard document class letter . Below is a complete minimal example.

Hope this help, Tom

12. April 2016 at 15:01

Thanks guys, it worked absolutely.

14. June 2016 at 23:07

The above throws up error after error. To begin with \fromname and \fromsig are undefined commands. then it complains that there is no line to end.

17. June 2016 at 17:56

Thanks for your comment. The code works on my system, although I should have stated that it requires the graphicx package to be loaded. Could it be that you have a somewhat older TeX version/distribution? Unfortunately, in the letter class change history it doesn’t say when \fromname and \fromsig was added.

23. March 2020 at 13:05

I’d reccomend this instead as you don’t have to do a weird hack with closing: “` \signature{\includegraphics[scale=0.1]{img.png}\\Your name} “`

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Inserting a signature page on latex.

I am trying to insert the following signature page on LaTeX below after my title page using the code below, but when I do so it is altering the spacing in the rest of my document (making the paragraph spacing and title spacing strangely appear in the rest of my document), and not really displaying correctly. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to fix this? Any help is appreciated!

Any advice on going about inserting this signature page below my title page is much appreciated so that it doesn't alter spacing in the rest of my document and still make this signature page display correctly.

Also getting the error Underfull \hbox (badness 10000) as well in case this helps fix things

Essentially, when I use this current code it changes my spacing (so when I have List of Tables, for example) it creates huge spaces between the "list of tables" heading. It also removes indentations I have within my background information when starting new paragraphs.

This is basically what it does to other sections when I implement it:

spacing issues with sentences; it also doesn't indent new paragraphs, also issues with headings

Result should be something like this (although with my case I have three signatures)

Formatting your Thesis and Dissertation:Tools,Tips and Troubleshooting

• I am a new Graduate Student at Florida Tech!
• Thesis and Dissertation Templates
• Learn About Zotero
• Formatting Landscape Pages
• Line Spacing
• Page Numbers
• Page Break and Section Breaks
• Table of Contents or Figures
• Figures Turning Black
• Margin issues with Tables
• Page numbers not appearing
• PDF to PDF/A
• Section Breaks
• Landscape Page Numbers
• Troubleshoot LaTeX formatting issues
• Copyright and Creative Commons Licenses Primer
• Do I need to embargo my thesis or dissertation?
• I'm ready to submit my electronic copy - now what do I do?
• What is the process for obtaining print copies of my thesis or dissertation?

Description of Issue

• I don't know anything about writing a thesis or dissertation using LaTeX.

One of my chapters does not appear when I compile the document.

• The word "caption" appears on the cover page .
• I do not want to have a Copyright Page .
• I want to increase the number of signatories on my signature page .
• I want to have my signatories in two columns on my signature page .

I grouped my signatories into two columns and now my margins are too small.

• One of my signatories has a long list of academic credentials that will not all fit on one line.
• I want to change where my Table of Contents splits/breaks between pages .

The entries in my Table of Contents do not link to the corresponding section headings.

• I need to increase the spacing between the figure name and its page number .
• I need to include pages with a landscape orientation .
• The sources in my References section are not listed in the expected order.

Some of the entries in my Bibliography are being split between pages.

I don't know anything about writing a thesis or dissertation using latex..

If you are completely new to LaTeX--or even if you have some previous experience--we strongly encourage you to use the Thesis Template for use with LaTeX , which is available on the library's website.  This template is already formatted to meet the general requirements for Florida Tech theses and dissertations.  Although some university departments may have specific requirements that are not reflected in the template, any required modifications to the template should be relatively minor.

To locate the template:

• Go to the library website
• Along the left side of the page, click on "Research Support":
• Along the left side of the page, under "Research Support", click on "Graduate Student Services".
• Along the left side of the page, click on "Theses & Dissertations".
• Under the heading for "Templates for Writing Your Thesis or Dissertation", download the zip file for Thesis Template for using with LaTeX.".

Additional information about working with LaTeX is available in the Evans Library's LaTeX2e Research Guide .

Within the main.tex file, you should find a series of commands similar to the following:

These are the means by which chapters become incorporated within your document.  Make sure that you provide an analogous command corresponding to your missing chapter.

The word "caption" appears on the cover page.

This error results from LaTeX' sensitivity to the order in which packages are loaded in the main.tex file.  This may be corrected using the following procedure:

• Open the main.tex file using your editor.
• Locate the section of the file where packages are loaded.  It should be at or near the top of the file and consist a a series of commands beginning with "\usepackage{...", as shown below:

• Comment out all of the \usepackage commands by inserting a "%" at the beginning of the line.
• Compile the document to confirm that the word "caption" no longer appears on the title page.
• One at a time, starting from the top, uncomment each \usepackage command and recompile the document.  When the "caption" error reappears, you will have identified the package that is causing the problem.
• Uncomment the remaining \usepackage commands
• Take the \usepackage command that is causing the problem and move it futher down the list until the problem no longer occurs (this may require some experimentation).

The following StackExchange submittal may also be of interest: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/316139/lost-word-in-first-page

I do not want to have a Copyright Page

To eliminate the Copyright Page from your thesis or dissertation, do the following:

• Open the main.tex file.
• Just above the "\begin{document}" command, locate the following:

• Comment out the "\toggletrue" command and replace it with "\togglefalse{usecopyrightpage}", as shown below:

I want to increase the number of signatories on my signature page.

Our standard thesis/dissertation template accomodates 5 signatories on the signature page.  Some students, need more signatures on their signature pages.

To make the necessary modifications, it is necessary to edit two files:

• fitthesis.sty . 

The information shown on the signature page, such as the names, titles and departments of the signatories, is defined as a series of variables.  Values are assigned to these variables in main.tex .  The code in  fitthesis.sty then generates the signature page by calling these variables.  This is illustrated in the figure below:

As seen in Figure 1 , the main.tex file contains a series of blocks of commands, corresponding to each of the signatories on the signature page. 

• These commands assign values to the variables that are called out in the fitthesis.sty file.
• Make sure that the new variable names (e.g. sixthreadername , sixthreadertitle , sixthreaderdept ) are different from those already used in the existing blocks.

The right side of Figure 1 shows corresponding blocks of commands in fitthesis.sty that are used to generate each of the signature lines

• Create a new block of commands for each of the new signatories on the signature page.
• Within fitthesis.sty , position your new blocks of code in accordance with where you want the new signature lines to appear on the signature page.

Remaining in fitthesis.sty , look for the two sections resembling the following:

In the section shown on the left side of Figure 2 , add additional " \def\... " commands to declare any new variables created for your new signature line(s).  In the section shown on the right, assign default values to each of your new variables.

LaTeX allows the user to code "switches" into their document that can be used to easily reveal or conceal blocks of text.  Examples of this may be seen in the section of fitthesis.sty shown on the right side of Figure 1 , where some blocks of code begin with " \iftoggle{...} , followed by the remainder of the block contained in curly parentheses ("{ }").  Corresponding blocks of code in main.tex , shown on the left side of Figure 1 , begin with " \toggletrue{....} ", indicating that the associated text will be visible in the document.  To conceal the text, the user should change " \toggletrue " to " \togglefalse " in the code.  Variables used in these commands (e.g. " useforthreader " or " useacademicunithead ") in the examples in Figure 1 ) must be declared in the fitthesis.sty file using ' \def\... " and " \newtoggle{....} " commands seen on the left and right sides, respectively, of Figure 2 .

I want to have my signatories in two columns on my signature page

As shown on the left side of the figure below, the code used to generate the signature page in fitthesis.sty begins with the following comment statement:

• %signature page

The code shown on the left is typical of that used to generate the default configuration of the signature page, in which of the signatories are listed in a single column.

To create a signature page in which the signatories are divided between two columns, the uppermost lines of code (through " \@author ") can remain unchanged.  However, the section of code outlined in red will need to be modified.  The code on the right side of the figure provides an example of how the code outlined on the left side may be modified to split the signatories between two columns.

To achieve this, a table is created with 3 columns.  The columns serve the following purposes:

• 1st column: contains the 1st column of signatories
• 2nd column: provides space between the 2 columns of signatories
• 3rd column: contains the 2nd column of signatories

Between the " begin{tabular} " and " end{tabular} " commands, each line of code generates a line of the table, encompassing all three columns.  The contents of the respective columns are separated by ampersands ("&") in these commands.  Vertical space is introduced between the signatories by the " \\ \\ \\ " command, which generates 3 line returns.

In the course of grouping your signatories into two columns, your left and right margins will be reduced.  In the event that they have become too small, begin by opening the fitthesis.sty file in your LaTeX editor.  Find the section in which the signature page is defined; in the original thesis template, this begins with the command "%signature page", as shown in the figure below:

If you grouped your signatories using the method outlined previously on this page (see the box entitled "I want to have my signatories in two columns on my signature page", above), your fitthesis.sty file will contain a table with 3 columns.  For each line of the table, the contents of the respective columns will be separated by ampersands ("&").  The contents of each of the 3 columns are as follows:

• Column No. 1: the signatories listed on the left side of the page.
• Column No. 2: provides space between 1st and 3rd columns.
• Column No. 3: the signatories listed on the right side of the page.

To increase the size of the left and right margins, you need to decrease the width of the columns.  Some ways of achieving this include the following:

• In the above figure, the signature lines are created with the command "\rule{200pt}{1pt}".
• You may decrease the length of the signature line by reducing the number in the first pair of brackets (e.g. "200pt").  The extent to which you can reduce the length of the lines depends upon the length of the names, titles, etc. below the lines).
• In the 2nd column, you can reduce the width of the column by reducing the number in the brackets following "\hspace" (e.g. "1cm")

One of my signatories has a long list of academic credentials that will not all fit on one line

To address the situation shown above, take the following measures:

• In your main.tex file, load the package "changepage".

• In your fitthesis.sty file, near the top of the section for generating the Signature page, add a command to change the right-hand margin of the page (you may alter the value of the "-3cm" argument, as needed, to accommodate your faculty member's academic credentials)..

• At the end of the same section, add a command to revert to the original right-hand margin.

I want to change where my Table of Contents splits/breaks between pages

In your thesis or dissertation document, the Table of Contents will sometimes split between pages in an undesirable manner, as shown in Figure 1 .  In this example, it would be preferable if the entry for Chapter 3 ( 3. Best Algorithm ) appeared on the same page of the Table of Contents as the entries for Chapter 3's subsections.

To correct this problem:

In your editor, open the file containing the chapter (for this example, chapter3.tex ) .

On the first line of the file, add the following:

\addtocontents{toc}{\protect\newpage}

Save the file and recompile your document.  Your formatting issue should be resolved, as shown below in Figure 2 .

If the entries in your Table of Contents do not link to their corresponding section headings, try the following:

• Open the fitthesis.sty file in your editor.
• Find the block of code starting with "\def\makethesistitle{%"

• In the following line, change "hypersetup" to "hyperref"

I need to increase the spacing between the figure name and its page number

If you wish to adjust the amount of space between your figure names and their page numbers in the List of Figures (see figure above), the following measures should suffice:

• In your main.tex file, confirm that the tocloft package has been loaded (it should have been).  This package includes the command(s) added in the following steps.
• Find the following line in your fitthesis.sty file: \newcommand{\makelistoffigures}{
• This command allows you to specify the width of the box in which the page number appears.
• Although the example shown below sets the dimension to "20mm", you will probably need to experiment with this value to find one that gets you the desired spacing in your thesis or dissertation.
• If you do not wish this to be the case, you may add another command (after the "\listoffigures" command) to reset the width of the page number field to a lesser value.  This is commented out below and outlined in blue in the figure below.

I need to include pages with a landscape orientation

To add pages with a landscape orientation within your thesis or dissertation, begin by activating the lscape package within the main.tex file, as follows:

The lscape package will enable you to specify locations in the text of your document where you wish to start and stop landscape formatting.

To reposition and rotate the page number on the landscape-formatted pages, you will need to define a function in the fitthesis.sty file:

Now, within the text in which you wish to shift to landscape formatting:

Note that the function defined to reformat the page numbers does not need to be named "fillandplacepagenumber"; you may choose a name of your own. 

The sources in my References section are not listed in the expected order

Your References section will contain the sources listed within your mybibliography.bib file.  For example, your mybibliography.bib file might appear as follows:

However, in the References section of your thesis/dissertation, it is unlikely that your sources will appear in the same order as they are listed above.  Instead, LaTeX will list the sources alphabetically by the last names of the primary authors (underlined below).

To address this problem, introduce the following code into your "main.tex" file:

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Thesis title page: how can I write my name and my supervisor's name on the same line?

I've written my thesis title page in this simple way, but I'd like to have the words "Supervisor" and "Student" on the same line (of course one on the left and one on the right side of the page but on the same line) and similarly for "Student's name and surname" and "Supervisor's name and supervisor". I don't know how to do it. Any suggestions? Thank you

• Welcome to TeX.SX! Which document class are you using? When posting code here, it's always a better idea to make it compilable: your code should begin with \documentclass{...} and end with \end{document} . –  Vincent Commented Jan 15, 2020 at 16:39
• use a table with 2 columns--first column=supervisor name--second column=student name--first column=left align l --second column=right align r –  js bibra Commented Jan 15, 2020 at 16:43
• Ok! Sorry, I didn't know it. I'm using \documentclass{book} –  S11 Commented Jan 15, 2020 at 16:45

Use tabularx for that:

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