You must use the Field Calculation Script, and only the Field Calculation Script. None of the other document or field scripts are useful. This means the script is run when Acrobat first opens the Stamp File, when the stamp is displayed on the Stamp Menu, and when any stamp in the Stamp File is placed on a PDF. Acrobat runs the stamp calculation script every time it accesses the Stamp File. At least one of the added form fields must have a calculation script. To make the stamp dynamic you add form fields to it. Acrobat does not care about the name, you can make it anything you want.
Once you find the Stamp File, rename it so you'll know what it is the next time you need to make a dynamic stamp. But remember, a Stamp File is a PDF, so you can open each one of the Stamp Files in the user stamp folder to find the stamp you want to make dynamic. You cannot know from the file name, which Stamp File contains your stamp.
Unfortunately, when Acrobat creates the Stamp File, it gives it a cryptic looking name.
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You can find the locations of these folders by executing the following lines of code in the JavaScript Console:įigure 2 Locating the Acrobat Stamp Folders Your custom stamp will be located in the "user" folder. Acrobat keeps its own built-in stamps in the "app" folder. Fortunately, all the Stamp Files are contained within two folders, a "user" folder and an "app" folder. The trick to creating a dynamic stamp is to first locate the Stamp File that contains your custom stamp. All the stamps in a Stamp Category are placed in the same Stamp File, Figure 1.įigure 1 Creating a Category creates a new Stamp File Acrobat creates a new Stamp File when you create a new Stamp Category. The stamps are the pages in the Stamp File.
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The fields have to be added after the custom stamp is created.Ī Stamp File is a regular PDF in which Acrobat has added some special information. Those fields are flattened out when the new stamp is added to a Stamp File. It doesn’t count if the fields are added to the original PDF that is turned into a stamp. A dynamic stamp is created by adding form fields to an existing PDF Stamp, in a Stamp File. Building a dynamic stampīefore getting into the advanced details, let’s review some dynamic stamp basics (full dynamic stamp tutorial).
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But there’s nothing anywhere about how to do these tasks (There is now, see the link to at the bottom of the page). This is crazy! Documentation on dynamic stamps is already hard enough to come by. The stamp needs to display the file-name of the document on which it is being placed, it needs to ask the user for some state information (i.e., approved, rejected, and so on), and it needs to write this information and a date into the document metadata. But after all that hard work, what seemed like days of slogging through molasses, it still doesn’t do what it’s supposed to and your boss is getting impatient. So you’ve finally figured out how to create a custom dynamic stamp for Acrobat.
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