Custom Toolbar Button for custom dynamic stamp

If you want to set up a toolbar button that selects a particular stamp, that can be tricky. Thom Parker discusses the issues in an article on his pdfscripting.com site, but you'll have to become a member to read the "Automating Stamps" article. The problem is the mechanism used is no longer available with Acrobat 10. I'm not aware of a workaround.

If you want the toolbar button to do something else, like automatically place a stamp somewhere, that is easier and covered in the article. In short, you'd use the doc.addAnnot method.

Well what about a button for a stamp thats not dynamic. is that possible?

If you could explain exactly what you want the toolbar button to do, it will help. For example, do you want the stamp to be selected when the toolbar button is clicked (so the user can place it), or do you want the stamp to be applied to the current page at a particular location?

Sorry about that. more info would definately help. i would like it to do what your first example describes. when the button is clicked, the stamp is selected and the user can place it.

As mentioned in my first response, I don't know of a way to do that with Acrobat 10. If you're lucky, Thom will notice this discussion and provide more info.

In the old (pre-X) Acrobat, there were a set of menu items for the stamp tools, so it was possible to create a toolbar button that ran the stamp menu item with the "app.execMenuItem" fucntion. But not anymore. In Acrobat X those menu items are history.

Now, to create a toolbar button that acts like it runs the stamp tool is a bit tricky. What you have to do is write a script that places a transparent form field button over the entire page. Then adds a MouseUp script to the button to places the stamp you are interested in at the cursor location. I've written up scripts that actually create the stamp right away at 50% opacity and then use a timer to track the mouse movement so the stamp moves with the mouse until the button is clicked. Its a very nice UI.

There are articles and sample scripts for members at www.pdfscripting.com

Thanks Thom,

I knew it was possible because i saw it in your "Stamps Gone Wild" video. I am planning on purchasing a membership to your PDFScripting.com website and purchasing a copy of Acro buttons. thanks again to everyone on the forum!

Daniel-