I spent a couple of hours last week creating dynamic stamps for my office. It was simply a certification stamp with a dynamic date on it. A couple of days later, of the 5 I created, only one showed up in my list of Dynamic Stamps and the date on that one had become embeded. Can anyone tell my why they would have disappeared from the list? I don't want to spend time doing them again if they are just going to disappear again.
I am using Adobe 7.
To create the dynamic stamp:
- I selected Tools, Commenting, Stamps, Create Custom Stamp
- selected an image (using a pdf stamp we already had for certifications)
- Selected Dynamic as the Category and named it appropriately
- I then went to the Stamps Folder under [user directory]\Application Data\Adobe\Acrobat\7.0\Stamps and checked which was document that had just been created. I renamed it to a name I would recognise in the future (MJHC Certifications 20130725) and opened up the document
- I then inserted a text box where I wanted it to be and right clicked and selected properties and chose the Calculate Tab.
- I then ticked Custom calculation script and pasted in the coding I had gotten from the adobe dynamic stamps which was...
- event.value = (new Date()).toString();
AFDate_FormatEx("dd/mm/yyyy");
- I then saved and closed the stamp.
- I then created 5 other stamps using the same process
The stamps were working correctly on the day I created them. The one thing I thought was interesting but didn't know if it was usual or not was that when I created the other stamps they were all saved as extra pages in the same document as the first one I had created. I did not know if this was what was supposed to happen or not.
When I went to check them a couple of days later there was only 1 that was showing up in my list for insertion in Adobe and that one had embedded the date rather than having it as a dynamic text field. I opened up MJHC Certifications 20130725 and re-inserted text fields into each one and saved the document (even though I am aware that if I am to re-create the dynamic stamps, the current stamps will no longer be used)
As an aside, today, whilst writing this to you and going through most of the process again to ensure I was writing it down correctly, I have opened MJHC Certifications 20130725 all of the stamps still have their text fields.
Thanks,
