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Question [Q] Office Suite w/Pen Functionality?

So I have tested pretty much I'd say 97% of the office suite apps available for Android. I'm surprised by the fact that almost none support editing with the pen. Unless I am doing something wrong?

The only one I could get to edit via the pen was Polaris Office. However, after making changes and opening it up in Word 2010 the handwriting was there but fragmented so wasn't legible.

My goal is to be able to open up a document residing in Dropbox on the tablet, make changes so others can open up on PC and view. Have not been successful as of yet.

Anyone have luck with doing it another way? I haven't tried OnLive Desktop yet but not sure it allows the proper access.

**Edit....guess I should mention what I was originally trying to do was put my signature on a Word document so someone else could print it out of Dropbox instead of me having to print it and sign manually.
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None of the office apps on the market has built in pen or signature function. You could make a note, save it as an image and paste it in. There are some PDF apps that have signature capability .
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None of the office apps on the market has built in pen or signature function. You could make a note, save it as an image and paste it in. There are some PDF apps that have signature capability .
That is too bad. I know that ezPDF has added pen integration in. Guess I could convert the .doc to .pdf and then annotate if need be. Like I posted earlier Polaris Office did let me write on it and would work as long as I continued to view it on the tablet. Word is finding errors in the doc once opened but not sure why that is.
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Wink Signing an electronic document

The flyer comes with pdf viewer which allows you to electronically sign a document. Convert your word document to pdf and sign it with your pen through pdf viewer.
 
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The flyer comes with pdf viewer which allows you to electronically sign a document. Convert your word document to pdf and sign it with your pen through pdf viewer.
I can do that via ezPDF as well but was hoping for the ability to markup a Word document & save back into DB so a PC user could then open in Word and view the markups/signature and keep it editable. Since most users don't have anything besides Adobe Reader on their PC the pdf would have to be converted back again and would probably lose the formatting.

Oh well....dare to dream.
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This might work for you. Works with Evernote / HTC note. I have not tried it.
RightSignature
http://ub.rightsignature.com/en8/
I do not think it is free
http://knoji.com/rightsignature-revi...o-coupon-code/

Here is an interesting article that basically points out that a document signed as you are attempting cannot be validated .
http://www.investintech.com/resource...nicsignatures/
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Actually, the latest version of Adobe Reader allows you to create and add signatures to .pdf documents quite easily.

 
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