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> No it’s not, I can’t sign a PDF goddammit It was painful to watch. I often sign PDF documents on Linux. I see three ways of doing it: - using annotations in
by jraph 5y ago
> No it’s not, I can’t sign a PDF goddammit
It was painful to watch. I often sign PDF documents on Linux. I see three ways of doing it:
- using annotations in the PDF viewer. Okular supports this, I think Evince too. So you don't have to install anything normally
- using Xournal. That's was I do.
- Pasting an image of your signature using LibreOffice Draw. I know someone doing this.
It's pretty simple and you don't need to install Wine + a Windows software to do this. But you have to know it I guess. I'm sure I would be in a similar situation as them, should I have to sign a PDF document on macOS or Windows. I know the PDF viewer on macOS does that from observing former colleagues. On Windows I would just install Xournal I guess.
There could be a "Sign this PDF" button in PDF viewers to make this common action obvious and solve this particular use case.
- dragonwriter 5y agoNone of the three things you describe affixes a digital signature, just an image of a signature. If you need to sign a PDF for some legal purpose, you need the former, not the latter.
- TastyJhinga 5y agoWhen we talk about signatures on PDF, it's almost always explicitly about eSignatures and certificates. I doubt a photo of your physical signature is legally enforceable anywhere without a proper certificate and an audit trail.
- jrepinc 5y agoOkular enables to quite simply add a proper digital signature, see https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/okular/okular/signatures.html#adding_digital_signatures https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/okular/okular/signatures.htm...
- jrepinc 5y agoI use this method with Okular for quite some time, which works just fine and our Slovenian government accepts this digital signature just fine https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/okular/okular/signatures.html#adding_digital_signatures https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/okular/okular/signatures.htm...