Defining a new date format in the footer

[abbasssinasam]

I need to write the date with my favorite format (e.g. 09-June-2017 12:00 PM)  in footnote.  How can I do that.

[stuart__k]

Sorry, I don't understand your issue. Are you using Adobe XD? What footer do you mean?

[abbasssinasam]

Thanks for your replay. Actually I have 100 pdf documents. Each pdf has different page number from 2 to 25 pages. I want to add a footnote to each page  so that I can track the document when it was requested by the staff for printing. Therefore I added the footer. The problem is that the date type is different from our standard date format. I need date format "09-June-2017 4:35 PM". But the date formats in the footnote are very limited and mostly are 9/6/2017.

My question is that: is there a way I define a new date format for footer that is suitable for our company?. Or is there a way to add a date stamp on each page of pdf such that it atomically prints the date and hour on pdf for printing?

regards

Abbas

[stuart__k]

This is the forum for Adobe Experience Design CC (Beta) | Prototyping & Wireframing Tool , perhaps you want Acrobat forum instead?

[gkaiseril]

You have to use Adobe Acrobat to edit PDFs.

With Acrobat JavaScript one can use the "util.printd()" method to custom format a date and time object.

I would add a form field to each page of the PDF where the footer would be placed and then write a custom JavaScript for the document's "Will Print" action to set the value of the added field to the current system date and time using your custom format. Then the for "Did Print" document action I would clear the field so it is ready for the next user. I would make the field "read only" so the casual user cannot update the  value.

You should realize that with a properly set up PDF, even Adobe Reader can update the value of a form field prior to printing the PDF, so not all of your users would require having Acrobat installed.

To setup the PDFs for this process you should have a copy of Acrobat Professional which includes the "Actions" (batch) processor that can add the fields and the scripts to accomplish this task.

[abbasssinasam]

Thanks you so much for your wonderful comments. I will check your method

and will let you know.

regards

Abbas

[try67]

I developed a tool that allows you to specify any date/time format you want in your footer (as well as many other advanced features):

Custom-made Adobe Scripts: Acrobat/Reader -- Advanced Add Header/Footer Text