• Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works
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    5 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.

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      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.

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

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        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??

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          5 months ago

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

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              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.

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                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.

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              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.