Re: Digital signatures
> IMO, digital signature support in PDF is unmatched by any other office file format
LibreOffice does digital signatures just fine *and* since version 5-something that includes support for PGP signatures which PDF does not have.
While a problem of the implementation and not the format per se, PDF signatures can be a bit of a minefield. The two major reasons are that the signature may refer to only part of the document but there is no clear visual indication of what part exactly (might have changed?) and the other is Acrobat's (?) stupid idea of adding some sort of stamp-like image onto the document itself, which has caused a lot of people to just look for the image and remain completely unaware of the actual signing mechanism.
As I say, that's not a problem of the actual spec, just shit software out there.
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