1pdfsig(1) General Commands Manual pdfsig(1)
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6 pdfsig - Portable Document Format (PDF) digital signatures tool
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9 pdfsig [options] [PDF-file]
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12 pdfsig verifies the digital signatures in a PDF document. It also dis‐
13 plays the identity of each signer (commonName field and full distin‐
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19 The signer certificate validation uses the trusted certificates stored
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22 · The NSS Certificate database in the default Firefox profile.
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30 -dump Dump all signatures into current directory.
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34 -h Print usage information. (-help and --help are equivalent.)
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37 The pdfsig software and documentation are copyright 1996-2004 Glyph &
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42 pdfdetach(1), pdffonts(1), pdfimages(1), pdfinfo(1), pdftocairo(1),
43 pdftohtml(1), pdftoppm(1), pdftops(1), pdftotext(1) pdfseparate(1),
44 pdfunite(1)
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