Okay, this is a major PDF breakthrough for lawyers. If you want to be able to stamp your digital documents with Exhibit labels and then have them numbered (or lettered) you need to go read this post right now. Installing the plug-in is easy as pie. If you do e-filing in federal court you need this. If you prepare documents for trial you need this. If you're a lawyer and you use PDFs you need this.
I'm not as excited as you are about this feature but I agree that it's fantastic. Because of that I'm very disappointed that the instructions didn't work. I have Acrobat in 4 different PCs running XP Pro. None of them has the Stamps folder in the file path shown in the instructions. Notwithstanding that, I dropped the downloaded file into the Stamps folder and nothing happens. The stamp icon on the toolbar is greyed out. Bummer.
Posted by: Charles Jannace | May 14, 2009 at 07:19 AM
We offer a trial exhibit stickering service:
http://www.TrialExhibitStickers.com
Like the stickers in the Adobe blog post, our stickers are vector-based, so they print perfectly. Our process is more automated than the process described in the Adobe blog post. For example, our process auto-numbers all the exhibits, without the user having to manually increment the exhibit number for each exhibit. Note that we offer this software as a service, so the software itself is not available for sale. Pricing for the service is described in detail on the site.
Posted by: Howard Loo | May 14, 2009 at 11:06 AM
I received this instruction from Rick Borstein in an email this morning:
"The AppData folder is a hidden folder. You’ll need to go to the Control Panel: Folder Options to view it."
With that instruction I was able to place the file into the correct folder. I'm using XP Pro. Now it works like a charm. A great tool. Now I see why Mr. Svenson is so excited. In my jurisdiction, e-filing is light years away but I'll use this in depos and trials as often as possible.
Thanks very much.
Posted by: Charles Jannace | May 14, 2009 at 07:12 PM
I was successful with two PCs running XP Pro. On my Latitude XT, however, running win 7, I have not been as successful. Despite changing my settings to view hidden files, there is noStamps folder at the end of the file path. I created a folder named stamps as a last resort and dropped the downloaded file into it but that did nothing.
Posted by: Charles Jannace | May 16, 2009 at 09:10 AM
strike my last comment. I've got it working well on Win 7.
Posted by: Charles Jannace | May 16, 2009 at 09:35 AM
What an exciting new tool! Thanks so much!
Posted by: Joe | May 18, 2009 at 10:21 AM
It is great to see you created an awesome use case for lawyers with dynamic custom stamps using Thom's "Dynamic Stamps Secrets" article to get your creative juices flowing :) We create custom dynamic stamps (some way more complex than this that accept more than a single input field) for all sorts of uses but didn't even know of this use case. Thanks for sharing!
Dimitri
WindJack Solutions
www.pdfscripting.com
www.windjack.com
Posted by: Dimitri | May 18, 2009 at 03:37 PM
Is this solution similar to bates numbering? Though adobe provide this feature but there are tool which are cheaper,intuitive and simple to use. For e.g. SysTools Software PDF bates numberer.
http://www.pdf-unlocker.com/pdf-bates-numbering.html
Posted by: JamesDavid | June 04, 2009 at 03:51 PM