16. Digital Signatures

From the early days, Adobe has wanted contracts and other agreements in PDF format to be legally binding documents. To do this, there needed to be some way of electronically signing a PDF document so that it was unimpeachably certain that a particular person had agreed to its contents.

This problem has been thoroughly solved. Electronically signed PDF files are accepted as legally binding documents by many federal agencies and ...

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