If you have the full version of Acrobat then bates-stamping documents is fast and easy. The first time you do it you may be a little overwhelmed, but it's really not that hard. First, you don't even have to have the documents you want to bates stamp open. So, to make it easy I've created a PDF tutorial that you can download and view. After you view it you'll know exactly what to do. So here is the link (Windows tutorial), but Mac is basically the same process).
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What is the benefit of bates-stamping, exactly?
Posted by: Joe | March 27, 2009 at 09:50 AM
Do you know what versions, other than 9, support this feature?
Posted by: RussellW | April 17, 2009 at 09:37 AM
Version 8 also allows bates-stamping, but only in the Professional version (which is true for Acrobat 9 as well).
Posted by: Ernie Svenson | April 20, 2009 at 10:41 AM
I know I'm late coming to this article, but I would like to know if there is any guidance available for using the featuer in Acrobat 9 that states "Shrink document to avoid Bates stamps from covering text or pictures." [My loose paraphrase.] I am producing documents and have scanned them all in and would like to use the Bates stamp feature, but some of the items actually will have small portions covered by the Bates stamps used in Acrobat. I do not want to create an issue with opposing counsel because the documents produced are not "exact" copies of the original documents.
Posted by: Jarod Morris | May 13, 2009 at 03:11 PM
I select few-thousand legal professionals know Easy Bates is an easier alternative to Acrobat.
http://www.easybates.com/
Posted by: Jeffrey Rennie | June 10, 2009 at 12:13 AM
I bates stamp in standard Adobe by adding footers and setting the margin at around 6.5 inches over and .2 inches from the bottom. If you pad with zeros, just number pages 1 to 9, then remove a zero for pages 10, forward.
Posted by: Robin | June 25, 2009 at 01:13 PM