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Digitally Signing Attached PDF forms on Linux

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kmand
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I run on Linux

I often get email with a pdf attachment that I need to fill in digitally sign and send it back in an attachment reply. The digital signing my company recommends is Adobe, not sure if thats the only acceptable one.

I know a messy way to do this. Save the attachment. Go to the browser. Login and load the right Adobe sign/edit pdf page, select the document from a file chooser to upload, do the signing, download the document, add it as an attachment to reply email.

Is there some way to at least automate some of this?

I run on Linux I often get email with a pdf attachment that I need to fill in digitally sign and send it back in an attachment reply. The digital signing my company recommends is Adobe, not sure if thats the only acceptable one. I know a messy way to do this. Save the attachment. Go to the browser. Login and load the right Adobe sign/edit pdf page, select the document from a file chooser to upload, do the signing, download the document, add it as an attachment to reply email. Is there some way to at least automate some of this?

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christ1
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Digitally signing documents has got nothing to do with Thunderbird. You can sign email messages you send using Thunderbird, but that's an entirely different story.

kmand
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Maybe I should rephrase it. I know that thunderbird is not going to sign a pdf attachment. I'm really looking for how to be able to click on the pdf attachment and get it into a program that lets me fill in and sign, without having to save it, manually invoke the other program, pick what I've saved from a chooser, and upload it.

I was hoping for help, so that I could configure thunderbird when it sees a pdf attachment to give me a choice of the standard pdf reader (evince) and whatever it needs to invoke the form fill/sign program with the pdf attachment.

It would be a bonus not directly related to thunderbird if someone could suggest a pdf fill/sign program for linux that would take the file as a command line argument, which is related to what I describe in the last paragraph.

christ1
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I'm really looking for how to be able to click on the pdf attachment and get it into a program that lets me fill in and sign, without having to save it, manually invoke the other program, pick what I've saved from a chooser, and upload it.

See http://kb.mozillazine.org/Actions_for_attachment_file_types