A Dynamic “Paid” Stamp for Acrobat

I have no plans on writing a tutorial, and I generally find building forms in Acrobat to be a pain, and I don’t feel that Acrobat Forms are really worth getting into. On that note, I’ve never before delved into the weird (Flash 4 esq) world of writing javascript for Acrobat, until now…

Acrobat has a neat little feature called Stamps. They are simply other small PDF files that are added to a document to add the same sort of information that a rubber stamp might add to a paper document.

More often than not, I receive invoices and bills in non-paper format. Whether it’s an html email, a Word document, a PDF, etc… Instead of printing these bills and invoices out, marking them paid, and filing them in a traditional paper filing cabinet, I decided I want to keep my filing as paper-free as possible.

After wasting over an hour looking though worthless tutorials on how to write javascript for Acrobat Forms, I came up with paidstamp1.pdf. Feel free to use it for yourself.

If anyone has anything along these lines that’s better than my lazy attempt, please send it to me.