[poppler] digital signatures

Brad Hards bradh at frogmouth.net
Wed May 7 13:56:30 PDT 2008


On Tuesday 06 May 2008 02:44:05 am Giuseppe Sacco wrote:
> Hi all.
> I am looking for any application on Linux that display digital
> signatures embedded in PDF files. I use gnome 2.22.1 with evince 2.20.2,
> but it seems that displaying digital signatures isn't supported (yet?).
I don't think any poppler-derived view can do that. You may have to resort to 
a non-free viewer like acroread if this is critical to you.

> Anyone knows if it supported in more recent versions or if there is any
> plan at all for supporting digital signatures?
It would be nice to do, but I don't have any timeframe for working on it. It 
isn't easy, because of the various elements that may or may not be signed.

Brad



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