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We use stamps for documents at my work. I have created many, many unique stamps for our industry. The problem is when opening the stamp palette the stamps are organized according to when they were added. This is fine until we add a new one and it is nowhere near where we might look. As far as I can tell, there is no way to either search or rearrange the stamps in the palette once entered. Is there ANY way to manipulate the stamps once they have been added to a palette? I sure hope so! Thanks!
Having been faced with the same problem and seeing as how Adobe have steadfastly not answered the query for 10 years (the oldest reference to this query that I found, and unanswered then too), I have created a workaround that seems to work.
Steps:
1. Go to where the Custom Stamps palette contents are stored on your computer. In my case (on a Mac OS X 10.14), it is in
~/Library/Application\ Support/Adobe/Acrobat/DC/Stamps. Each of the files there contains the stamps used in each Custom Stamps categ
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Having been faced with the same problem and seeing as how Adobe have steadfastly not answered the query for 10 years (the oldest reference to this query that I found, and unanswered then too), I have created a workaround that seems to work.
Steps:
1. Go to where the Custom Stamps palette contents are stored on your computer. In my case (on a Mac OS X 10.14), it is in
~/Library/Application\ Support/Adobe/Acrobat/DC/Stamps. Each of the files there contains the stamps used in each Custom Stamps category.
2. They are named with a "random" string but you can see the contents in a preview or with a PDF viewer. Open the relevant file in Acrobat Pro.
3. In Acrobat Pro, go to Organize Pages. You will see the stamps on individual pages, in the order they show in the Stamps palette. If you haven't already, close the Stamps palette.
4. In Organize Pages, drag each page (the stamp) into the order you want them to be shown on the Stamps palette.
5. Close Organize Pages. Save the file with the same name.
6. Quit Acrobat Pro, then restart the application. Open the Stamps palette. The stamps should now be in the order you want.
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Thank you @AlanLitchfield for sharing this tip! This has been bugging me for years and as many, I have been so irritated by Adobe's lack of respect. You are truly a scholar and a gentleman!
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This is a good tip but it works with stamps located in one PDF only. At my work place we have several categoris of stamps like Seals, Signatures, Shop Drawing Reviews etc. which are located in a different PDF each. How do I arrange them?
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Rename the files in the Stamps folder to alpha-numerically arrange them in the same order you want them to show. Example --> 1_MyFirstStamp, 2_MySecondStamp, 3_MyThirdStamp, etc. You can do this from the 'Master' files that you share with everybody, or let each user decide the best order for them and let them rename their own files.
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Correction- Acrobat DC orders stamps with numbers as text-> 1, 11, 2, 22, 3, etc. so choose your alphanumeric ordering with this in mind. Windows explorer orders numbers like numbers- 1, 2, 3, 11, 22, 33, so your order there may not be what you want in Acrobat.