I use these all the time. They are great.

If self hosting is an option, I've found Signature PDF to be quite good.

https://github.com/24eme/signaturepdf?tab=readme-ov-file#sig...

I had to bash my head against the wall and submit myself to paying for a creative cloud license. At least acrobat just works. Although I wish there was a reasonable alternative.

How about this: https://tools.pdf24.org/en

It allows installation for offline use too.

Came here to say this. Qpdf is my go-to for manipulating pdf files on the command line. Encrypting, decrypting, extracting and merging pages.

It's Apache-licensed and written in C++.

CEOs often need to sign changes to employment terms or options/vesting terms and have hundreds if not thousands of employees. They don't have the time to go through and sign all of those contracts.

Its no different than the analog ages where a secretary would go through and stamp all the contracts with the CEOs signature.

Why wouldn’t a company sign documents they create automatically? This is about a cryptographic signature that lets the user verify authorship, not a visual signature in the PDF, right? So it would still be useful to be able to verify that a bank statement is really from my bank, even if it was generated without human interaction.

I found it suspicious, they formerly sent stuff too their cloud without it being obvious, and the company seems to mod their own subreddit.

And thus the Leatherman(tm) was born from its ashes.

And too quickly smothered in copycats for its name to become the new metaphor.

9/11 killed them. They used to be sold in airports.

Swiss Army knives seem to be as popular as ever. What do you mean, doesn't have a positive connotation?

They're great hiking, camping, traveling, in backpacks and bags.

What's wrong with it as a knife? It's perfectly sharp. Obviously it's not a full-sized chef's knife, but it will cut your apple or twine or packing tape. It's a multitool. It does lots of things. A tool of "last resort" seems to miss the point -- it's not meant to use at home, when you have a full-size screwdriver and bottle opener and corkscrew. It's for traveling with you. And it's great at that.

SAK's are iconic. I don't think your take is a common one.

It’s not open-source, so practically the question is equivalent to “why reinvent the wheel by creating libreoffice when there’s a perfectly good Microsoft office suite out there”

It makes sense to me. They made a PDF library for Python first. Having a PDF library for your preferred language is a good thing.

And it’s natural to then build a cli tool on top of the library they already made.

This was my first thought, but after reading the comments here, I see I had no idea how many other alternatives already existed, so why not add another one.