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Preview shouldn't be trusted for legal documents ? I would call that Apple bashing nonsense. Mac, Windows, Linux, BSD ... if you're going to go signing legal
by traceroute66 5y ago
Preview shouldn't be trusted for legal documents ?
I would call that Apple bashing nonsense.
Mac, Windows, Linux, BSD ... if you're going to go signing legal documents (a) with a self-signed certificate (b) without an independently traceable timestamp .... then frankly don't expect it to hold up for long in a law court.
- sp332 5y agoHow is "the wrong checkbox being selected" related to certificates and timestamps? And the signatures we're taking about are an image of a signature, not a cryptographic one.
- traceroute66 5y agoHow do we know "the wrong checkbox being selected" was a Preview problem and not something to do with non-standard PDF construction ? Also, I don't know about you, but AFAIK pretty much all software these days (whether closed-source or open) comes with a great big disclaimer attached effectively saying "you're on your own" if the software functions in an unexpected manner.
- jokethrowaway 5y agoThat depends on how the file is delivered. Drawing your signature is not even needed. That said, most of the times I need a signature is some bureaucratic useless form and the signature is just a pro-forma - and you can be sure if I don't have a signature (and maybe if I didn't pass my form through a filter to make it look like it was scanned) some government employee in some office will reject my form and I'll have to do another one and fork out even more money.