Jack,
I also print out using the Star, so am forever without the signature, which basically frustrates me to no end.
But, before I knew that, I made my signature. As you know, it HAS to fit in the little box or it won't work properly. Many editors were mentioned such as Paint (Microsofts still pathetic idea of an image editor -- a bit better in Win7). But, you can download a 30-day trial version of Adobe Photo Shop Extended
https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/tdrc/index.cfm?product=photoshop&promoid=EBYEU&loc=enwhich will allow you to do whatever you want with a signature. Especially good at making a transparent signature, which I use with other word processors such as PDFs. I actually purposefully overlap the signature on lines to make it look more real.
I am almost certain that it doesn't matter where the signature is as once it is imported, it is now in AC in the AC folder. I say this, because it was damned near impossible to get rid of. Simply deleting the signature from the server did not get rid of it.
