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Can't sign pdf documents with Okular in Debian
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Adriano Vilela Barbosa
Mar 21, 2022, 8:40:02 AM3/21/22
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I'd like to know if anybody can sign pdf documents using Okular in
Debian as explained in the manual:
https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/okular/okular/signatures.html
I've never been able to do this, although I have a PKCS signing
certificate available at $HOME/.pki/nssdb. In Okular, the menu entry
"Digitally Sign" under the "Tools" menu is grayed out and the section
"PDF Digital Signature Certificates" of the PDF backend configuration
(https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/okular/okular/config-pdf.html#config-pdf-digital-signatures)
doesn't exist on my system.
At the bottom of the page on the first link above there is a note that says:
"This feature is available for PDF documents only. You need to install
at least version 21.01 of Poppler to be able to add digital signatures
to a document."
I'm running Debian Testing and, until yesterday, the version of
libpoppler installed on my system was 20.09. Thus, I figured pdf
signing wasn't available on my system because I didn't have the
required version of libpoppler. Last night an update came along which
brought libpoppler from version 20.09 to version 22.02. However,
nothing changed after the update: I'm still unable to sign pdfs.
So, I wonder if anybody here is able to sign pdfs using Okular in
Debian and, if so, what's required to get that working.
Thanks a lot.
Debian as explained in the manual:
https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/okular/okular/signatures.html
I've never been able to do this, although I have a PKCS signing
certificate available at $HOME/.pki/nssdb. In Okular, the menu entry
"Digitally Sign" under the "Tools" menu is grayed out and the section
"PDF Digital Signature Certificates" of the PDF backend configuration
(https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/okular/okular/config-pdf.html#config-pdf-digital-signatures)
doesn't exist on my system.
At the bottom of the page on the first link above there is a note that says:
"This feature is available for PDF documents only. You need to install
at least version 21.01 of Poppler to be able to add digital signatures
to a document."
I'm running Debian Testing and, until yesterday, the version of
libpoppler installed on my system was 20.09. Thus, I figured pdf
signing wasn't available on my system because I didn't have the
required version of libpoppler. Last night an update came along which
brought libpoppler from version 20.09 to version 22.02. However,
nothing changed after the update: I'm still unable to sign pdfs.
So, I wonder if anybody here is able to sign pdfs using Okular in
Debian and, if so, what's required to get that working.
Thanks a lot.
Diederik de Haas
Mar 21, 2022, 10:30:03 AM3/21/22
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On Monday, 21 March 2022 13:16:17 CET Adriano Vilela Barbosa wrote:
> I'm running Debian Testing ...
A rebuild of Okular was needed to enable that functionality and earlier today
the above update was done, so it should work with okular version 4:21.12.3-2.
> I'm running Debian Testing ...
> Last night an update came along which brought libpoppler from version
> 20.09 to version 22.02. However, nothing changed after the update:
> I'm still unable to sign pdfs.
>
> So, I wonder if anybody here is able to sign pdfs using Okular in
> Debian and, if so, what's required to get that working.
https://tracker.debian.org/news/1312522/accepted-okular-421123-2-source-into-unstable/
> 20.09 to version 22.02. However, nothing changed after the update:
> I'm still unable to sign pdfs.
>
> So, I wonder if anybody here is able to sign pdfs using Okular in
> Debian and, if so, what's required to get that working.
A rebuild of Okular was needed to enable that functionality and earlier today
the above update was done, so it should work with okular version 4:21.12.3-2.
Adriano Vilela Barbosa
Mar 21, 2022, 8:10:02 PM3/21/22
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Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda
Mar 22, 2022, 6:20:02 AM3/22/22
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El 22/3/22 a les 0:49, Adriano Vilela Barbosa ha escrit:
Too many dependencies to make a backport? Is it possible?
Leopold
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