Move that specially formatted Stamp Collection file to your Desktop. Open the stamp collection file you just moved to your desktop. It should be opened in the PDF-XChange Editor. Add Form fields (usually text fields) that will contain the dynamic elements of your soon-to-be dynamic stamp.

With more legal processes going digital, it is imperative to find ways to handle traditional paper based processes in the new digital formats. One important process is marking documents as legal exhibits. The traditional approach is to use stickers, with exhibit and case information hand written on to the sticker. For an electronic PDF document, the equivalent of a sticker is a Dynamic stamp. Dynamic stamps, when used properly, offer big improvements over the paper process, such as automatically incrementing the Exhibit ID/Number and providing instant access to a wide variety of appearances.

The first Legal Exhibit Stamp created by PDFScripting.com was actually not for this site, but for the Adobe Legal blog by Rick Bornstein in 2009. So we've been at this for a long time. Since then we've added a few different variations (shown below), culminating in our most advanced Exhibit Stamp with colors, text, and size that can be customized by the user.

– When you place the first stamp, it will display a dialog prompting to enter the starting number for the stamp counter. If you right click on Rubber Stamp icon and check “Sticky” option, the number will increase by 1 for each placement. Below is an example showing that placing a pre-defined dynamic text stamp with “Sticky” option. This is a tutorial that shows you how to create your own dynamic stamp on Adobe Acrobat DC. In this video, I will show you how to use Javascript to display t.

All of the following Legal Exhibit Stamps are auto-incrementing, meaning that the Exhibit ID/Number is automatically updated each time the stamp is placed. They all come with an associated automation tool for setting the exhibit number and other exhibit parameters. All of them are downloads, links provided.

The Exhibit Master

This is our latest stamp. It includes both a header and a footer with customized text, and an optional date in the footer. The 'labels' in the header and footer can be either selected from a common list, or entered manually. The colors for the stamp border, background, label text, and value text are all completely customizable using HTML color specifications. Since there are so many ways to customize this stamp, functionality is included for saving names groups of settings. This makes it easy to switch between different types of stamps, such as the samples shown below. Find out more here

Plain Exhibit Stamp

This stamp is the simplest. It's only dynamic field is the Exhibit ID/Number. The download file provides two variations on the stamp, Plaintiff and Defendant, both using the same color scheme. The stamp was originally a sample/demo of how to create an auto-increment. You can create your own stamp design and just copy the increment field onto your stamp. As long as the stamp script isn't changed, the automation tool will work for any auto-increment stamp derived from this one. Both the stamp file and automation tool are installed manually.

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Exhibit Stamp with Case Number

This is an updated version of the Plain Exhibit stamp that includes custom text for a 'Case Number'. This stamp also introduced the idea of document and global storage for the stamp parameters, meaning that the actual increment and case number could depend on which document was open. The stamp includes a Windows Installer, which makes setting it up in Acrobat easy for non-technical users. However, Macintosh users will still need to install manually.

Free Adobe Dynamic Stamps Software

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British Columbia Exhibit Stamp

Free Dynamic Stamps For Adobe

This is a special Exhibit stamp we created for courts in British Columbia, Canada. Apparently they have very specific requirements for exhibits.

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