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The main feature of this release is the ability to validate pk7 document's signature using the certificate of the company who sends document.

Between other minor improvements, pk7-gui takes care about the exit status of pk7 command to show the user the proper message.

This version improves integration of pk7 extension in GNOME. Now it's not limited to pdf documents. pk7-gui executes each environment's launcher to display encoded document based on it's mime type. And supports for generating pk7 files.

There are many other improvements and bug fixes.

More changes available in Changelog

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Ok, this is the latest release. pk7 extension is registered automatically when using deb and rpm packages and this version supports i18n.

This version lets to see document's signature in PKCS#7 PEM Format and its certificate. To decode certificate PK7 uses openssl command internally.

pk7-pdf.sh script is also replaced with a more complete script called pk7-gui to integrate ".pk7" extension in konqueror's contextual menus.

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This is the first version of this project initially created to let GNU/Linux users to see their electronic bills sent by companies like Movistar (in Spain) which only provides a viewer for Windows systems.