Tutorial on how to create a custom date/time (pop-up) stamp in Acrobat

This is a tutorial on how to create a custom date/time (pop-up) stamp, in Adobe Acrobat 9/X, that prompts you to enter any date or time. In actuality, you could have it prompt you for whatever you like, not just date or time. Please feel free to post questions and I'll try to answer and get back to you as soon as possible. Please LIKE if this helps you out.

Script #1 **Getting actual stamp file name**
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event.value = event.source.stampName;
console.println("Stamp Name: " + event.source.stampName);
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Script #2 Date/Time Pop up
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var cAsk = "Please Enter Date Filed:" ;

var cTitle = "Document State For Stamp ";

if(event.source.forReal && (event.source.stampName == "ENTER OUTPUT FROM FIRST SCRIPT"))
{

var cMsg = app.response(cAsk, cTitle);
cMsg;
event.value = cMsg;
event.source.source.info.DocumentState = cMsg;
}
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Closed Caption:

hi this is a tutorial on how to create a
custom date stamp or a timestamp for
adobe acrobat 10 before we begin make
sure your hat you have your custom stamp
ready in either jpg or in PDF format
this is my custom stamp in jpg format
and make sure you have a handy PDF
document around this is one that I just
actually just made up and you will need
to write down this custom strip here the
first line of code helps you find out
what the actual file name of the PDF is
that your you'll be creating the cuts of
step out of and the second line second
group of of a code here is actually what
the will prompt the user when entering
the date stamp so if you want go ahead
and pause the video and write down these
two scripts
ok now that you've been both scripts
down and put into a text document go
ahead and save it and minimize it now
we're going to start and create a custom
stamp make sure you have your era stamp
image ready
this one's mine go to acrobat go to
comment
annotations stamp custom stamps create
custom stamp now you're going to browse
to your stamp image it could be either
in jpg format or in PDF format
mine is in a jpeg format and select the
image
ok now that the image loaded up
go ahead and click OK and create a
category name
create a name for the stamp i'm going to
call mine received then click ok ok at
this point
go ahead and close acrobat now opened
windows explorer go to your c drive and
under windows seven you're going to go
under users but if you have Windows XP
you're going to go on their documents
and settings so once you're going to
users go to your user folder then go to
app data and if you don't see that data
and windows seven go ahead hit alt go to
tools folder options go to the View tab
and make sure you have show in files
folders and drives selected if you don't
go ahead and do that now and click ok ok
so now under appdata go to roaming adobe
acrobat go to version 10 angle to the
stamps folder and now you see the this
PDF file this is the father gets created
when you created that step from the
image of your stamp so let's go ahead
and rename this PDF document and let's
call it well call it whatever you like
i'm calling mind made up
received
ok now that you rename the file
go ahead and double-click on it
acrobat will load and you will need to
scroll down and here is your stamp image
in a PDF format now so now we're gonna
we're gonna have to put a date field
here so now you would have to hit select
tools go two forms and hit create
go ahead and select default use the
current document or browse to a file it
next use current document next and it's
going to say no new form field
annotations were detected
that's ok click ok now we're going to
add new field you have several options
but for this tutorial we're selecting
text field and click on it and move it
over to the middle of your step and the
field name we're going to call it a date
so once you've done that hit enter
right click in the text field select
properties
go to appearance change the font size to
10 and select the pics color that you
want
put options and the alignment line and
select center that way the date is
centered on stamp now go to the
calculate pad go to custom calculation
script hit edit and this is where you're
going to open that text document that
you saved earlier and this is where this
two scripts come in handy so go ahead
and get the script that goes on there
getting actual file name
it's a two-line code and select it
control C then go into the JavaScript
better box control V so we can paste the
code click OK and close
go ahead go ahead and save it and save
it with the same filename and replace
existing file
yes yes
close the file and acrobat if you want
now going to minimize your your text
document and let's open a PDF file so
i'm going to open this one that I
created earlier double-click on it
ok now go ahead and open up any PDF
document that you may have double click
on it so then go to comment and patient
stamp and now you see that category that
you created earlier my company stamp go
to the actual stamp click on it and set
it in an open area of the PDF click on
it and now you see these where
characters on stamp it's important that
you bite down exactly how it is
displayed here at this time you can
write it down exactly how it is
or go ahead and just
close a document you can save changes to
the PDF before closing know so now under
open recent file go ahead and open your
stamp that you created earlier i called
mine made up received going to scroll
down and now you see that same weird
characters listed in the previous
document the easiest way is just to
highlight all the text control C and
then open your text document with all
the scripts and you're going to place it
under the quotation marks and this line
of code that is under the PDF date
pop-up script so go ahead and delete
that and paste the current characters so
now that you've done that go ahead and
select all of the script on their PDF
they pop up script ctrl-c to copy and
minimize and then back to your
to your stamp go to tools on the forms
click on edit and then right click on
the text field now select properties and
you may go to the calculate tab then on
the custom calculation script click edit
and delete all of this code now you can
do ctrl V and that paste the manuscript
click OK and at this time on their
general are under appearance you can go
ahead and change the font size the
reason why would you change it to 21 so
we can get all of the characters within
the box so now you're free to make it a
fun size 14
click close and hit save
ok
you saved it you can go ahead and close
Michael bet and now you can open any PDF
file that you have handy go to comment
annotations go to the stamp go to your
stamp you created and now you see the
pop-up field please enter date filed
let's just do july 29
let's just say 31st 2012
click OK and there you have it a
custom-made stamp for adobe acrobat and
the reason why you may want to create a
custom date is because you may want to
back stamp a particular document that
you may have forgotten or something and
you need to back date the document so
this is one reason for the purpose of
this tutorial is to teach you how to
create this custom stamp with the date
stamp or x them and if you want to make
this stamp transparency and go ahead and
right-click on the stamp go to
properties under opacity i would suggest
you do fifty percent
and you may want to make properties
default and click OK and now your stamp
is transparent every time you bring up
the staff it should now be transparent
on any PDF document you load it on too
so thank you for watching my tutorial on
how to create a custom date stamp and
adobe acrobat hope you liked the video
thank you