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[-] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 29 points 4 months ago

I actually do use acrobat for legal document work

It good for adding signatures and making changes to pdf format schtuff

[-] DavidGarcia@feddit.nl 64 points 4 months ago

what do you use for illegal documents?

[-] IIII@lemmy.world 67 points 4 months ago
[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 16 points 4 months ago
[-] Siegfried@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

We got pirate acrobat at home.

Pirate acrobat at home:

[-] ArenCoco@lemmy.world 17 points 4 months ago

Adobe Acrobat works for me using Bottles/Wine. Pirated and old version of course

[-] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago

If that's your only use case you can also use Xournal++ on Linux which does the job.

Of course your choice of OS is totally up to you and you don't have to justify it to anyone, just letting you know the tool exists.

[-] Opafi@feddit.de 20 points 4 months ago

Xournal lets you paint on a document, which I guess isn't what they need when they talk about legal stuff. Digitally signing a document is still one of the rare cases where I boot up my windows vm. It's so annoying that there's practically no way to do that in Linux as my company's processes rely on it.

[-] irmoz@reddthat.com 8 points 4 months ago

Okular can digitally sign

[-] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 months ago

Ohhhh yeah you're right, I forgot digitally signing is different from just painting a signature on there >< .

[-] Nisaea@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 4 months ago

We use foxit reader on Linux for that at work.

[-] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 months ago

Wait digital signature is not easy on linux? What kind of digital signing is this? I thought it was possible with GPG and also with gui apps. Maybe I'm thinking about some other digital signing??

[-] sik0fewl@lemmy.ca 9 points 4 months ago

PDFs have embedded digital signatures, so the signing tool needs to support the proprietary format.

[-] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 4 months ago

What if i just sign the entire pdf file with GPG? That is not valid?

[-] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

If it was valid, do you really think people would be talking about it being a problem here? Please use your head a little.

Also, two entitely different meanings of the word signing being used here. Signing as in signing a bill vs. Cryptographic signing. Adobe has some weird "halfway" thing that's more than painting the sig on the image, but isn't gpg.

Hooray for proprietary shit becoming accepted for legal use! Yuck.

[-] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 months ago

Imagine real signed file being denied and one with painted signature accepted

[-] JargonWagon@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

When I worked with a lot of legal documents, we just used DocuSign mostly. Have you attempted that on Linux? Not sure what it's like these days, also curious if it's because it's a web application if it works the same.

[-] sik0fewl@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 months ago

Well, it uses existing PKI/CAs (ie, same as your browser), which I'm not sure GPG supports? I might be wrong.

You could certainly use GPG, but it's not what others will be looking for. Depends on your use case, I guess.

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