Using Acrobat to put Exhibit stamps on digital documents

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.

And for his excellent work, I hereby nominate Rick Borstein for the Nobel Prize in PDF Technology!

Comments

[Charles Jannace]

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.

[Howard Loo]

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.

[Charles Jannace]

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.

[Charles Jannace]

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.

[Charles Jannace]

strike my last comment. I've got it working well on Win 7.

[Joe]

What an exciting new tool! Thanks so much!

[Dimitri]

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

[JamesDavid]

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

[Jeffrey Evans]

I was wondering if anyone else has had the same problem I have encountered with trying to customize the Two-Line Dynamic Exhibit Stamps created by Rick Borstein in his Sept. 12, 2009, Blog. I am using Windows XP Pro and Adobe Acrobat Standard Ver. 9.4.3. In his Sept. 12, 2009, Blog article, Rick created 3 Exhibit Stamps and each is split into two fields for input of the case and case number and the exhibit number. He then provides instructions for revising or changing the text using the edit field option under Forms. I have tried every way possible but have had no success in editing or changing the text or words in the CaseNumFieldF's or the shape of the stamp border, and I have followed Rick's instructions to the T. Does anyone have any insight why his instructions are not working with Ver. 9.4.3?