In all versions of Acrobat, the stamp tool is activated by selecting a specific stamp from a stamp category, as shown in Figure 3. The new UI changes some aspects of how stamps are used, and has an impact on automating the stamp tool with a script. All the stamps created and used in previous versions, including dynamic stamps, will work as expected in Acrobat X. In fact, this functionality has not changed in any significant way since Acrobat 5. The functionality internal to Acrobat that handles stamps is the same. It displays a popup menu that provides exactly the same options available in older versions of Acrobat, although with a different arrangement.įigure 2 – The stamp tool in Acrobat X is accessed differently, but has exactly the same options as previous versions.Īfter an initial examination of the new user interface, it seems as if the stamp tool hasn’t changed a bit, it has just just been moved to a new location. The stamp tool is accessed from the “Annotations” Pane on the “Comment” Panel. All the same tools are there, they’ve just been rearranged. In Acrobat X, the majority of Acrobat features have been moved to collapsible panels on the right side of the Acrobat window, with only a few features still accessible through menus and toolbars (Figure 2). All three methods provide access to exactly the same stamp-tool set.įigure 1 – Access to the Stamp tools in Acrobat 9 and earlier. In older Acrobat versions, the stamp tool is accessed through the Comments menu, the Tools menu and the Commenting and Markup toolbar. In previous versions, nearly the entire Acrobat feature-set was provided through menu items, with toolbar buttons used as a convenient shortcut to the menu items (Figure 1). Using them in Acrobat X is just a little different. For the most part, stamps have not changed since Acrobat 5. When the developers at Adobe designed the stamp functionality, they got it right the first time out of the box. If you’ve already been using stamps in previous versions of Acrobat, you know what I’m talking about and so your first impression of Acrobat X may have been, “Ack!! Where are my stamps?” The user interface changes in Acrobat X are dramatic, but don’t let the fancy UI update distract you.

No other PDF feature provides the same combination of ease-of-use, scope of usability and flexibility for marking-up an existing document. But this one simple feature is, in my opinion, one of the most important and useful Acrobat/PDF features of all time. A PDF stamp is, for the most part, just a custom (user-defined) graphic that can be applied to a document.

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