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Spotlight on pdfly, the Swiss Army knife for PDF files
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Re: Spotlight on pdfly, the Swiss Army knife for PDF files
#12There is also: https://pdfcpu.io/ That said, if you're looking for a GUI app to do simple PDF mutations it's often hard to fine a simple solid open source cross platform app. At least I haven't found one :)
How about this: https://tools.pdf24.org/en
It allows installation for offline use too.
Re: Spotlight on pdfly, the Swiss Army knife for PDF files
#13Pdftk has been been around for many years, and does exactly the same things. Why reinvent the wheel?
Re: Spotlight on pdfly, the Swiss Army knife for PDF files
#14I’m curious: what good would automating signing a PDF through a utility do? The whole purpose of a signature is that a person signed and agreed to something. That cannot be done automatically.
Why wouldn’t a company sign documents they create automatically? This is about a cryptographic signature that lets the user verify authorship, not a visual signature in the PDF, right? So it would still be useful to be able to verify that a bank statement is really from my bank, even if it was generated without human interaction.
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
CEOs often need to sign changes to employment terms or options/vesting terms and have hundreds if not thousands of employees. They don't have the time to go through and sign all of those contracts. Its no different than the analog ages where a secretary would go through and stamp all the contracts with the CEOs signature.
Those don’t need certified signatures. They just need pdf stamps.
It depends on jurisdiction
Re: Spotlight on pdfly, the Swiss Army knife for PDF files
#16Not the same thing but just want to shoutout https://www.pdfgear.com/ as one of the only viable alternatives to adobe for intermediate level PDF tinkering. It’s free and available for everything except Linux.
Re: Spotlight on pdfly, the Swiss Army knife for PDF files
#17In addition to the already mentioned, there is also pdfcpu[0], "a Go PDF processor and CLI"
Re: Spotlight on pdfly, the Swiss Army knife for PDF files
#18curiously poppler doesn't mention that anywhere on their website, but the library comes with a similar suite of tools, typically available in linux distributions. i have found them very helpful. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poppler_(software)#poppler-uti...
I use these all the time. They are great.
Re: Spotlight on pdfly, the Swiss Army knife for PDF files
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
CEOs often need to sign changes to employment terms or options/vesting terms and have hundreds if not thousands of employees. They don't have the time to go through and sign all of those contracts. Its no different than the analog ages where a secretary would go through and stamp all the contracts with the CEOs signature.
Those don’t need certified signatures. They just need pdf stamps.
Pdf stamps have zero security.
Signing can be cryptographic.
Re: Spotlight on pdfly, the Swiss Army knife for PDF files
#20What about https://www.ghostscript.com ?