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Re:It's been 30 years. Shouldn't PDF become open source give... by rstuart4133 on Thursday December 14, 2023 @07:27PM (#38649473)
It misses at least one editing tool, which happens to be the one I prefer: xournal. https://xournalpp.github.io/guide/pdfs/

LibreOffice's apps and Inkscape also do the job as they say, but they re-render the existing content which often changes it's look. In particular of it don't have a close matching font installed the result can be a mess. xournal doesn't have that problem but it only lets you add, not delete or modify.

No mention of digital (x509) signing. LibreOffice can do it - but see above. Okula can do it reasonably well, if you are prepared to pollute your Firefox certs with your personal ones. I haven't found a command line tool (like pdftk) that does it, which is sad.

Re:It's been 30 years. Shouldn't PDF become open source give... by gettalong on Friday December 15, 2023 @05:17PM (#38659517)
If you need a state of the art CLI tool for signing PDFs that supports the latest standards (think ones from 2023), I can recommend pyHanko (https://github.com/MatthiasValvekens/pyHanko/).
Re:It's been 30 years. Shouldn't PDF become open source give... by rstuart4133 on Saturday December 16, 2023 @08:45PM (#38669641)
Thank you. Responses like these make HN awesome.