I suggested that, but they insist they need a "handwritten signature".
Honest answer: Get yourself Adobe Acrobat Reader (Win only). Even the free version allows you to do add a signature be it free-hand sketch, or as an image (they also have a cloud version of that). It’s a pain, but does the job. Also,you can generate a SMIME certificate and add it into the document. Again, Adobe-specific solution. It’s the only reason I keep Windows VirtualBox VM around.
If you don’t want to go Adobe way, another option is to use Xournal to open the PDF in question and scribble your stuff onto it. Not great, but again, does the job. Sort of… Finally, there’s LIbreOffice Draw which opens any PDF and allows you to edit it and scribble into it. The only problem is that when you save it back to PDF, sometimes it screws up fonts and there’s little you can do about it. So YMMV. Optionally, there are some SaaS options for this out there, but I did not try (except the original Adobe thing).
Oh, and there is also Master PDF Editor which could help. I think the life-long license is worth avoiding the Adobe crap. Free version adds some watermarks, but if you are OK with that, you might be good.
@fribbledom Forget Android, forget Linux. It’s a waste of time. Get yourself free demo Windows VM in VirtualBox, install Adobe Acrobat and go ahead.
Well, to be precise, Oracle did not write it in the first place. They bought it (Innotek GmbH acquisition). I also understand VirtualBox is open source, or something like that. But OK, if you are sufficiently ideological about it, then your options are accordingly limited, I guess.
Well, whatever we think about the outside world, the unfortunate reality is that sometimes we are forced to interact with big entities which require stuff like PDF signature. I still wonder why non-Adobe OSS solution emerged. It’s crazy. Everybody needs it and nobody does it. SO is full of question about this.
So after lots of struggle in alternatives, I just gave up. After all, I have better things to do with my life than waste time on futile ideological battles with myself…
@tn5421 I wanted to say “I wonder why NO non-Adobe solution emerged”. Stupid me… Sorry.
Interesting. This looks like going Inkscape way. It’s a vector editor. The problem with Inkscape for this is that it cannot properly open and edit multi-page PDFs. Does this Karbon thing do it?
(before I try I better know, becuase that would require me to pull in GBs of KDE dependencies first, I guess)
@FailForward @tn5421 @brolf @fribbledom
If you don’t want to go Adobe way, another option is to use Xournal to open the PDF in question and scribble your stuff onto it.
This is what I always do. It works really well for me. It works better if you have a touch screen, but doing it with a mouse is ok as well.
I actually use Xournal++, rather than Xournal. I’m not sure if it makes a difference, though.
Of course, the other option is to simply print it, use a pen, and then scan it. Assuming you have a printer and scanner, of course.
@FailForward
I've tried the official Adobe thingy on Android, no luck 😒
@tn5421 @brolf