Digital Signatures

[Woody44]

Neither FreePDF 2022 nor FlexiPDF 2022 handles digital signatures as neatly and easily as other PDF editors and readers. I'm attaching a screen shot of a PDF that was created as a text file and converted to PDF. I then opened it in Adobe Reader XI and with a couple of keystrokes and mouse clicks I was able to insert a proper-looking digital signature.

I can do the same thing in Adobe Acrobat 9, and in Foxit reader (not the full Foxit editor, just the reader), yet I can't do this even in FlexiPDF Pro 2022. All I can do in FlexiPDF Pro 2022 is insert a scanned image of my handwritten signature, and I can't even do that in FreePDF.

It seems to me that Softmaker is lagging far behind the competition in this regard. If other companies allow users to easily insert proper digital signatures using just their reader software, it is disappointing that Softmaker doesn't give us this capability even in its flagship PDF editor program.

Has this been rectified in FlexiPDF 2025?

[martin-k]

What exactly are you missing? If you have a digital certificate, you can insert a digital signature in FlexiPDF NX, FlexiPDF 2025 and FlexiPDF Professional 2022 with an image of your liking (such as a scanned) signature. At the same time, this checksums the document and makes any later changes by others detectable. That's what digital signatures do.