PDFs are perfect for the one thing they were designed for, which is publishing high quality proofs for printing. They aren’t supposed to be editable. People just use them where they shouldn’t.
PDFs are great at one thing, which is creating a “digital printed copy”, I.E something that will look the same on any device, and is pretty much universally supported.
Yeah, I hate “digital signatures” in PDFs. Oh, you wrote your name, scanned it to a jpeg and pasted it onto the (supposedly) uneditable PDF that I sent you, potentially rendering the document invalid? Thanks.
My work its super quick to e-sign because they have everything set up already. at home fuck that I don’t sign enough documents that I would ever save time setting it up.
Born in 89’. I’ve always hated PDF’s. Hey, do you want to enlarge your file for sharing? NO!
But you can make it so only people with money can edit it? NO!
Well we’ll let other people sign it for free, you just have to sit all of them down and teach them how to create a signature.
No, not that signature, that doesn’t count legally. We need you to buy a security certificate and link it to it.
Can’t I just create the cert on my computer?
Well yeah, but no one will accept it.
Fuck off me!
PDFs are perfect for the one thing they were designed for, which is publishing high quality proofs for printing. They aren’t supposed to be editable. People just use them where they shouldn’t.
PDFs are great at one thing, which is creating a “digital printed copy”, I.E something that will look the same on any device, and is pretty much universally supported.
How to sign a PDF.
Print the PDF onto paper.
Sign the paper version.
Scan the paper to a PDF.
Yeah, I know it’s stupid but I did it 4 times this week for vendors. I do save some paper by getting a double sided scanner.
Internally all of my business activities use electronic signatures not in pdf’s.
Yeah, I hate “digital signatures” in PDFs. Oh, you wrote your name, scanned it to a jpeg and pasted it onto the (supposedly) uneditable PDF that I sent you, potentially rendering the document invalid? Thanks.
My work its super quick to e-sign because they have everything set up already. at home fuck that I don’t sign enough documents that I would ever save time setting it up.
Yeah… we really need to quit making proprietary formats into industry standards.
I always thought it made it look more legitimate and professional. Now I work with (somewhat) protected files, they’re all just word documents haha.