[Tugindia] Digitally signing pdf
Mayuresh
mayuresh at acm.org
Fri Jul 29 16:58:26 CEST 2011
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 10:33:09AM +0530, Shrisha Rao wrote:
> You can make a detached signature using GnuPG (gpg from the command line). An attached signature using GnuPG does not always work, and sometimes corrupts the PDF so it cannot be opened.
I like this method and I have set up mutt to do this for signing email.
But I have to send signed document to acrobat users who may not have
machinery to verify detached signature.
>
> There is a tool that is claimed to work to sign PDFs: http://sourceforge.net/projects/portablesigner/ -- but I have never used it so do not know how good it is.
You just made my day!
That works pretty well if you are targeting acrobat users.
Mayuresh.
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