@neil For the record (and any interested person), I e-sign pdfs using #Okular. I live in Belgium and the country's E-ID (using the stock reader in my laptop) allows the digital workflow without issues (outputting a PDF with an actual embedded certificate).

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@neil yo that reminds me of a hilarious (to me) story about when i had to sign a PDF, but i couldn't be bothered to do any of this. i did have one of those e-readers with a pen though, so i just copied the PDF to there, signed it, and copied it back to the computer. good enough for a one off and everyone got what they wanted in the end

@neil I often use the following to concatenate multiple pdf files into one.

gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=output_filename.pdf 1.pdf 2.pdf 3.pdf 4.pdf

@neil wow, thanks for #docuseal , never heard of it.

@neil I always enjoy reading this kind of stuff. An overview of yr infrastructure would be interesting. Is office on house Wi-Fi or did you run a cable etc. (I used Ubiquiti wireless bridge devices to connect a friend's "cabin" a few hundred metres from home).

I dislike using signature images; sometimes got docs returned for written signatures, scanning & return. Made a Truetype font w initials, 1st name + full signature w Fontographer. Looks 👌, 0 returns. Fontforge or Birdfont for FOSS.

@neil Nice. Libreoffice is gaining markdown reading soon - I'm not sure how well it works but you may find that an alternative. I find your use of gs interesting; it's something I've not had to do for a long time; I tend to use the set of pdf tools from poppler for most fiddling with pdfs (package poppler-utils )

@neil Firefox has a pretty decent built-in PDF editor. I still mostly use evince for viewing PDFs, but for the (far too) frequent form that I get from school or wherever, I'm already viewing it in a browser. It's easier to just edit right there, insert a signature image, save, and email it off.

@neil Regarding redaction, the whole image-and-OCR thing feels pretty brutal in itself (and I wouldn't want to rely on imagemagick given it's _still_ getting critical security holes found and it was notorious for that twenty years ago). I've ended up loading the page in Inkscape, actually deleting whatever it is, saving that single page as PDF and assembling a new document.

@neil In my experience, exchanging PDF annotations written in Evince with other PDF viewers including Adobe's just works. I have used it in a production environment.

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I use Okular, is full of tools