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OP is a troll. Likes windoze and clearly states doesn’t like or use Linux so why TF even ask, especialy in a Linux community…

Too bad that reproductive harm doesn’t work eliminating the birth of politicians

Politician: The lowest form of life on earth (lower than slime mold… sorry for insulting slime mold).

They produce nothing of value, never have and never will, true sociopaths, total liars, elitest narsacistc parasites and oxygen wasters and generally evil…

Rather than editing PDFs directly, might it be possible to use LibreOffice (LO) Writer? Write, with all the features/facilities of a document editor that will likely meet all your needs. When the document is complete, export as PDF and e-sign the PDF with LO as well…

LibreOffice is community driven and developed software project, not the product of an American company.

‘Bates’ numbering: LO Writer supports creating custom page numbering formats/styles.

e-sign: e-sign the PDF with LO as well, reference links below

Workflow

an example workflow might be:

• Create document templates, save read-only in network accesible location; only the template maintainer can edit/save the templates; law firm logo, letter head, watermarks, Bates numbering, etc.,
• Author copies desired template to author’s system and makes the copy writable,
• Edits/saves drafts locally on author’s system, or in a central, network accessible repository; backups, team access, preliminary/formal reviews, etc.
• When final version is complete, export as PDF, and of course, save it as well
• e-sign PDF using LO

References

https://knowledge.digicert.com/tutorials/sign-openoffice-libreoffice-documents https://duckduckgo.com/?q=libreoffice+pdf+esign&t=vivaldim&ia=web

Good professional work!
I’ve been doing a lot with sed recently and I found some helpful/handy examples in your doc.

I’d forgotten about the use of braces for commanp grouping and put it to use after reading your doc.

Thank you for your work.