Punjab wants 10 KB to 40 KB in black or blue ink — and it compares your signature at every stage. This checks the band and the ink colour.
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| File size | Not less than 10 KB, not more than 40 KB |
|---|---|
| Format | JPG or JPEG |
| Dimensions | Not stated |
| Paper | White |
| Ink | Black or blue ink pen |
| Used for | Comparison at all stages of examination and interview |
PPSC's wording: “The Candidate has to sign on white paper with Black/Blue Ink pen”, and “Size of file (jpg/jpeg format) should not be lesser than 10 KB and more than 40 KB.”
Most of the commissions we build for say nothing at all about ink colour, and on those pages we refuse to invent a rule — a tool that applies one body's ink requirement to another is guessing. Punjab is different. Its guidelines name black or blue explicitly, so here the check is warranted, and this page measures the hue of your strokes and tells you if they read as something else. A green or red pen is a real and easily-made mistake that no file-size check would catch.
PPSC attaches sharper consequences to the signature than most. In its own words, the scanned image will be used for comparison at all stages of examination and interview, and if at any stage it does not match the signature on another document where you are required to sign, then your candidature may be rejected without any further enquiry or opportunity being given.
It also warns that candidates having someone else sign on their behalf will be viewed as attempting to impersonate, which may lead to rejection and to legal action. So the signature you upload should be the one you actually and habitually sign — not a neater version produced for the form.
This is worth being precise about, because other pages are not. PPSC's guidelines give a format and a file size band and a set of quality rules. They do not give pixel dimensions, an aspect ratio or a DPI — for either the photograph or the signature. The document even promises, at item 4, that the signature specification is “given later in these instructions”, and then the only specification anywhere is the format and the 10–40 KB band.
One widely published page states 140 × 177 for the PPSC photograph and 140 × 80 for the signature. Neither figure appears anywhere in the Commission's document. Its file size range is right — 10 to 40 KB for both — which is exactly what makes the invented pixel numbers easy to believe.
So nothing here locks your image to a shape Punjab never asked for. What is enforced is the thing Punjab actually specified: the band.
Worth reading before you upload anything. The guidelines state that a request for change or correction in any particulars in the online application form shall not be entertained under any circumstances, and that the Commission will not be responsible for the consequences of filling the form incorrectly. Editing is possible only until you click through to print the fee challan — after that the form is closed.
Each candidate may fill only one application form, and the guidelines add that the IP address of the computer used is recorded, and that anyone uploading a pseudo application or illegal photographs will be proceeded against as per law.
Punjab exists on both sides of the border and both halves have a Punjab Public Service Commission abbreviated PPSC. This page is the Indian commission, at Baradari Gardens, Patiala, on ppsc.gov.in. The Pakistani commission is in Lahore at ppsc.gop.pk and is a separate organisation in a different country with its own recruitment rules and its own upload requirements. Nothing here applies there.
Within Indian Punjab, PPSC is also not PSSSB, the Punjab Subordinate Services Selection Board, which recruits separately. And several other commissions end in the same four letters — HPPSC is Himachal Pradesh, APPSC is Andhra Pradesh. None of them is Punjab.
Same application, different file. Each has its own limits — they are not interchangeable.
Not less than 10 KB and not more than 40 KB, in JPG or JPEG. PPSC gives no pixel dimensions for the signature. Its guidelines say the specification is given later in the instructions, and the only specification given anywhere is the format and that band.
Black or blue. PPSC's wording is that the candidate has to sign on white paper with a black or blue ink pen. This is one of the few commissions that states an ink colour at all, so unlike our pages for bodies that say nothing, this tool actually measures the hue of your strokes and tells you if they read as some other colour.
Because it is used for comparison at every stage. The guidelines say the scanned signature will be compared at all stages of examination and interview, and that if at any stage it does not match the signature on another document, the candidature may be rejected without any further enquiry or opportunity being given. They also warn that having someone else sign on your behalf is treated as an attempt to impersonate, which may lead to rejection and to legal action.
That figure appears on at least one widely published PPSC page and appears nowhere in the Commission's guidelines. PPSC states no pixel size for the signature. The file size range those pages give - 10 to 40 KB - is correct.
Because a signature is a few dark strokes on white paper, which is the most compressible thing there is, and PPSC sets a 10 KB floor. A clean tight crop can easily land under it. Since PPSC caps no dimension, this tool raises the resolution to clear the floor rather than padding the file.
No. PPSC states that requests for change or correction in any particulars shall not be entertained under any circumstances, and the form closes to editing once you click through to print the fee challan.
India. Both have a Punjab Public Service Commission abbreviated PPSC. This is the Indian one at ppsc.gov.in, Baradari Gardens, Patiala. It is also not PSSSB, the Punjab Subordinate Services Selection Board.
No. The trim, the ink measurement and the compression all run in your browser on your own device. Your signature image is never transmitted.
Requirements on this page are quoted from the Guidelines for Filling Online Application Form published by the Punjab Public Service Commission, Baradari Gardens, Patiala — the document whose every page is footed “WEBSITE : http://ppsc.gov.in”. The copy we read in full was the one issued with the Punjab State Civil Services Combined Competitive Examination; the same clauses appear unchanged in later cycles. PPSC states a format and a file-size band with both ends (not less than 10 KB, not more than 40 KB), and an ink colour for the signature; it states no pixel dimensions, no aspect ratio and no DPI for either upload.
The document carries no version number, so check the advertisement you are applying under. Figures of 140×177 and 140×80 circulate for PPSC and appear nowhere in the Commission’s guidelines, though the 10–40 KB range published alongside them is correct. This is the Indian Punjab Public Service Commission; Pakistan’s Punjab Public Service Commission (ppsc.gop.pk) shares the abbreviation and is a different body, as is PSSSB. We are not affiliated with any of them.