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.
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February 2nd, 2009 at 7:44 pm
nice article! nice site. you're in my rss feed now ;-)
keep it up
March 3rd, 2009 at 6:52 am
Just what I was looking for – I can't work out how to change the date though ? (using Windows XP and Acrobat 9 Pro)
March 3rd, 2009 at 6:52 am
Just what I was looking for – I can't work out how to change the date though ? (using Windows XP and Acrobat 9 Pro)
March 3rd, 2009 at 6:52 am
Just what I was looking for – I can't work out how to change the date though ? (using Windows XP and Acrobat 9 Pro)
May 7th, 2009 at 9:24 am
Ditto – How do you change the date?
May 7th, 2009 at 9:24 am
Ditto – How do you change the date?
May 7th, 2009 at 9:24 am
Ditto – How do you change the date?
May 7th, 2009 at 9:59 am
if I recall, there is a dynamic field in the PDF that I populated with
some fairly simple javascript.
if you download the PDF, it should be in there, and editable, for you
to take a look.
i do think it's set to only display the date the stamp is applied to a
document though, which was the stole point ofvthe exercise.
July 1st, 2009 at 9:40 pm
Thank you for this, have been looking for one of these for ages, would have thought that Adobe would have included one as standard!
thanks again!
July 1st, 2009 at 11:40 pm
Thank you for this, have been looking for one of these for ages, would have thought that Adobe would have included one as standard!
thanks again!
October 31st, 2009 at 8:55 am
Hi, I made another stamp which doesn't overlap the original document. I sent to your email. Hope it helps :)
November 10th, 2009 at 3:12 pm
very cool namchiu! would you mind if i posted the pdf to make it available for others to download?
November 15th, 2009 at 10:22 am
It would be my pleasure to share it with others : )