What Adobe Acrobat alternatives have PDF signing features

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We use Adobe Acrobat at work for creating signed PDF documents. Currently run Adobe Acrobat 6 Professional to sign these documents. Acrobat Reader will not sign PDFs. Is there any non acrobat product that can:

  1. Sign PDFs
  2. Add signature fields to PDFs.

The first is more important than the second since I sign PDFs more than I insert signature fields in PDFs.

Justin Dearing

Posted 2009-07-20T19:26:40.040

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Question was closed 2018-06-29T16:59:12.487

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pdfMachine pro does digital signatures. They will also sell you a certificate if you want.

craig

Posted 2009-07-20T19:26:40.040

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OpenSignPdf is an open source project for the digital signature of PDF documents.

I'm not sure it this is a good idea, but there is experimental online PDF signing service.

Ludwig Weinzierl

Posted 2009-07-20T19:26:40.040

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Ludwig,

I'm looking for something that can sign PDF forms in particur places, not to sign a document as authentic. That does look interesting though. – Justin Dearing – 2009-07-27T11:15:30.860

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Have you tried foxit reader and creator?

Stephen

Posted 2009-07-20T19:26:40.040

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Foxit Reader 7.3 (portable) has a (digital) signing feature in the menu PROTECT / Sign&Certify... – David Balažic – 2016-04-27T20:50:47.387

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– Canadian Luke – 2012-08-09T21:04:31.070

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jpdftweak, although I never tested signing with it.

If you want to do it from a program, look at iText.

mihi

Posted 2009-07-20T19:26:40.040

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You have also Portable Signer that does PDF signing, and is multi platform. It is based on the iText library.

CharlesB

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