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scottno
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February 27, 2019
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How to change the name on a Dynamic Stamp copied from the defaults?

  • February 27, 2019
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I have copied a page from the Dynamic stamp PDF to create a stamp that says "Prepared" instead of "Received".

I have updated it on the blue background of the PDF, the forms page, the text field properties screen, the title of the document and everywhere else I can see but when I add it to the ENU folder it still says Received, not Completed when added as a stamp to a document. It does pull in the correct time/date so I know it is updating portions correctly.

Does anyone know where I need to change to get the Dynamic stamp to say completed instead of the Received that it was copied from?

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Correct answer Karl Heinz Kremer

I wrote up a tutorial about how to do that a few years ago: Modify Dynamic PDF Stamps in Acrobat - KHKonsulting LLC

As Them said, restarting Acrobat is important for this to work. To check the name of the stamp, you would use the procedure outlined in Thom's article here: https://acrobatusers.com/tutorials/print/dynamic_stamp_secrets  - Look for the section titled "The Stamp Name"

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Karl Heinz Kremer
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February 27, 2019

I wrote up a tutorial about how to do that a few years ago: Modify Dynamic PDF Stamps in Acrobat - KHKonsulting LLC

As Them said, restarting Acrobat is important for this to work. To check the name of the stamp, you would use the procedure outlined in Thom's article here: https://acrobatusers.com/tutorials/print/dynamic_stamp_secrets  - Look for the section titled "The Stamp Name"

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scottnoAuthor
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February 27, 2019

That is actually the article I used to try and create this stamp. The first time I tried to keep the pdf file the same by copying the page and editing it. But for some reason it was pasting the whole white page as a stamp with the note as a small rectangle in the middle. That's why the next time I just made a copy of the Dynamic pdf and deleted all the pages but the one stamp I wanted to edit. There were a few differences I noticed with the process that I didn't think would make a difference. One being that I didn't have to delete all the letters of Received separately. They were in a single word that I just replaced with Prepared. Most everything else I followed but the stamp looks like the Adobe default, even with the edits I have made.

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scottnoAuthor
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February 27, 2019

I have also updated the page template to say Prepared instead of received. I still get the stamp that was created by default showing received, not prepared.

Thom Parker
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Thom ParkerCommunity Expert
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February 27, 2019

Did you completely shutdown Acrobat and restart?

Have you checked the name of the stamp that's place against the stamp name in the page template?

Thom Parker - Software Developer at PDFScriptingUse the Acrobat JavaScript Reference early and often
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scottnoAuthor
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February 27, 2019

I restarted my computer to try and make sure it was fully reset. I'm not sure I'm following what you said about "the name of the stamp that's place against the stamp name in the page template?

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