| Summary: | Ability to sign a PDF with my scanned signature (i.e. picture file) like in Adobe Acrobat | ||
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| Product: | [Applications] okular | Reporter: | Edward <edwardiv1> |
| Component: | PDF backend | Assignee: | Okular developers <okular-devel> |
| Status: | REPORTED --- | ||
| Severity: | wishlist | CC: | drokergeek, h.mth, jesiphone2020, katyaberezyaka, m.weghorn, mabo, nicolas, nortexoid, oliver.sander, philippe.roubach, simonandric5, thywalls, utkuberberoglu |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version: | 0.16.0 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Other | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
| Attachments: | a signed PDF to play with | ||
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Description
Edward
2013-02-28 23:42:19 UTC
JFYI, there are two bugreports to poppler to extract signature data[0] and actually sign a full PDF document[1] with work-in-progress patches. Qt5 frontend integration seems included. Well, as these are the basis for signing and this is the only bugreport about this feature I add my note here. [0] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99271 [1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99416 Just a status update: [0] is fixed. I have poppler-0.57 and checks with pdfsig work fine: $ pdfsig signed.pdf Digital Signature Info of: signed.pdf Signature #1: - Signer Certificate Common Name: Hans Wurst - Signing Time: Jan 18 2018 10:32:38 - Signature Validation: Signature is Valid. - Certificate Validation: Certificate has Expired [1] is about to be merged :) Created attachment 109989 [details]
a signed PDF to play with
Attaching a sample PDF that is signed. Open that in Adobe Reader to get an idea of what it looks like.
I think the original report is about different functionality, viz., the ability to annotate a hand-written signature into the document, much like macOS's Preview can do, and online software such as Hellosign can do. Having this feature would mean one could avoid having to sign a document by hand, scan it, and then email/upload it. Oh yes, never mind. Digital signatures would be https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=233806 This is an extremely common workflow. Yes a digital signature is good, but a graphical signature is *essential*. Ideally you would have both but if only one then a graphic and text annotation is badly needed. With the next release of Okular we will have to digitally sign a pdf. Good. But we also need to sign with a graphical signature <=> insert a picture of a graphical signature or the mouse or any device for signature. I've discovered the last update's digital sign feature, nice! Master PDF Editor has this feature (paid one) which has a checkbox to add an image to the signature visual box, which would be to add your graphical signature for bureaucratic reasons. Really looking forward this last feature, which would, for me, replace completely any other (this is, adobe acrobat reader specifically) pdf reader Today I’ve found out that this feature is available to macOS users of Apple’s 'preview' program since more than 15 years: https://twitter.com/reckless/status/1470429409979023360 Sounds like the preview app lets you store a number of different signature scans to use in different circumstances. We now can sign with a graphic signature. But this spec is hidden. We must create" an annotation tool named "signature" with "type" = stamp, "opacity" = 100 %, "stamp symbol" = "pathname of the png file of your signature" Then this tool is added in the menu "text selection". Then you must select "signature" in the menu "text selection" then move the mouse cursor "+" to the spot of the signature, then left click. It would be better to right click on the spot of the signature. This open a contextual menu, there is an option "signature". You select this option. It's in the pipeline: https://invent.kde.org/graphics/okular/-/merge_requests/537 Thanks Philippe! I saw the same trick ages ago but I couldn't get it to work. Now it does! |