Legal Research

"Add Dynamic Exhibit Stamps in Acrobat Using a Free Stamp Set"

Posted by Rick Borstein: "Exhibits are documents attached to pleadings or contracts which are referenced by the main document.

 Exhibits generally are numbered (1, 2, 3) or lettered (A, B, C) consecutively in the order they are first encountered in the body of the referencing document (brief, contract, etc.).

In order to easily tell one exhibit from another, case documents are often stamped with an easy-to-see exhibit stamp:

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Since PDF is the defacto (or often mandated) eFiling standard, it didn't come as a surprise that I've received a few emails on this exhibit stamping PDFs over the last couple of years.

I've written previously about creating custom stamps, but an Exhibit Stamp has both a static graphic element and a changing numeric or alphabetic element. I have proposed a workaround using watermarks and the typewriter tool to some firms, but that still was a lot of work.

Only recently have I come across an elegant solution that can accomplish both steps with a click! When you stamp the document, Acrobat will ask you for the exhibit number, then stamp it on the document:

Read the full article to download a special stamp set that does the work for you."

Full text and the active link are available at the source site listed below.

Source: Acrobat for Legal Professionals, 13 May 2009

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on May 14, 2009 (boomark / email).