Hello,
Can anyone recommend an app for macOS that can add a digital signature to a PDF, other than Acrobat Reader? I'm fed up with it, it's so complicated and messy and buggy, and I can't get it to work properly no matter what I do. But unfortunately I can't seem to find any other piece of software that can do this.
I find it hard to believe that the Acrobat Reader is the only app in the world that's capable of electronically signing documents. There must be others, but I just can't seem to find any. Everywhere I look, I find tons of recommendations, but they are either online, or they're about pasting a picture of your real-life signature, like you can do in Preview. But that's not what I want. I want to add a digital signature, based on a certificate. Not a picture of a primitive doodle made on the trackpad.
So, here's what I want:
- It must be able to communicate with a USB smart card reader, retrieve security certificates from it, and add a digital signature (i.e. not an image of an actual signature) to a PDF file.
- This must happen locally. Uploading the document and the certificate to an external web side is totally out of the question.
- It must not necessarily be free. I'm willing to pay for it, but only once. No subscription.
- Not Acrobat Reader or any of its brethren from Adobe (like Acrobat Pro or the like).
Is there an app for macOS that meets these criteria?
Thank you.
Can anyone recommend an app for macOS that can add a digital signature to a PDF, other than Acrobat Reader? I'm fed up with it, it's so complicated and messy and buggy, and I can't get it to work properly no matter what I do. But unfortunately I can't seem to find any other piece of software that can do this.
I find it hard to believe that the Acrobat Reader is the only app in the world that's capable of electronically signing documents. There must be others, but I just can't seem to find any. Everywhere I look, I find tons of recommendations, but they are either online, or they're about pasting a picture of your real-life signature, like you can do in Preview. But that's not what I want. I want to add a digital signature, based on a certificate. Not a picture of a primitive doodle made on the trackpad.
So, here's what I want:
- It must be able to communicate with a USB smart card reader, retrieve security certificates from it, and add a digital signature (i.e. not an image of an actual signature) to a PDF file.
- This must happen locally. Uploading the document and the certificate to an external web side is totally out of the question.
- It must not necessarily be free. I'm willing to pay for it, but only once. No subscription.
- Not Acrobat Reader or any of its brethren from Adobe (like Acrobat Pro or the like).
Is there an app for macOS that meets these criteria?
Thank you.
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