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Acrobat Stamps compatibility with Bluebeam

  • October 11, 2023
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Does anyone have experienced with dynamic stamps in Acrobat Pro and also Bluebeam application?
Does Acrobat Stamps fully compatible with Bluebeam?
Does BlueBeam stamps fully compatible with Acrobat Pro?

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    Correct answer Thom Parker

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    I figured it out. The problem is the dialog definition.  The Acrobat JS implementation allows a lot of variation in values when it comes to "0", "null", "", and "false".  All of them evaluate to the same thing, depending on the target type. The Bluebeam JS model does not. As stated in my article on bluebeam stamps "Bluebeam stamps tend to fail ungraciously when a property is not supported." 

     

    In this case the checkbox values are defaulted to null. Change them to false and it'll work. 

     

    Ex:

    ...

    bChk1: false,
    bChk2: false,

    ...

     

     

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    JR Boulay
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    October 11, 2023

    I suppose Document Geek will have the answer to that question.

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    October 11, 2023

    Or @Thom Parker  itself! 🙂 

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    October 11, 2023

    The answer is Yes and No. A dyanamic stamp can be created that will work in both Acrobat and BlueBeam, but both have thier own structural differences that can make one incompatible in the other.  

    The Differences section in the article you've linked above covers these issues.

    Basically, a Bluebeam stamp is the first, and only the first page in the PDF file. It does not have to be a tempate page, as is required in Acrobat, but it can be a page template. So this is the compatibility overlap. To make a dynamic stamp work in both, the stamp must be the first page in the file and be a template with the Acrobat naming. 

     

    Thom Parker - Software Developer at PDFScriptingUse the Acrobat JavaScript Reference early and often
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      October 11, 2023

      I have found portions of my answer here:
      https://www.pdfscripting.com/public/Bluebeam-Stamps.cfm

      But It’s a bit hard to know exactly what is uncompatible in Bluebeam from my Acrobat Stamps.

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