Select a Stamp with JavaScript

[JR Boulay]

Hi

I want to create an add-on button tool, when the user clicks it displays a popup menu (popUpMenuEx), and this menu list some custom stamps, allowing the user to choose one.

I don't want to place the stamp on the page, I want the user to have the selected stamp on the cursor, so he just have to clic where he wants to place the stamp.

I know how to create a button and a popup, but I don't know how to select a stamp with JavaScript and I cannot find usefull information.

Is it possible?

Thank you.

[try67]

No. Why not use the built-in Stamp tool, instead? What you can do with a script is apply a specific stamp to a certain position on the page, though, and then the user can move it around, but you can't "pre-select" it and attach it to the mouse cursor.

[JR Boulay]

It's for a team of Acrobat Reader users. Acrobat Reader don't allow to customize the toolbar icons, so they need a quick access to some stamps.

Otherwise, is it possible to use JavaScript to quickly show the Stamp palette?

I cannot find any information about this.

[try67]

No, not possible.

[Thom Parker]

You can force the stamp toolset to appear. You just need the right menu name:

https://www.pdfscripting.com/members/Complete-List-of-Acrobat-Menu-itemsL-Hidden-Visible-and-Popup.c...

[try67]

There's no menu item for the stamp tool. There is a quick tool item name called "Stamp", but that doesn't work.

[Thom Parker]

Creating such a tool for Reader is possible. 

And you already have the scripts for doing it

https://www.pdfscripting.com/members/Using_the_Mouse_to_Automate_Stamps.cfm?sd=53

I'm not sure if it is covered in the article, but I create the stamp as soon as the user selects the button/menu item, give it 50% opacity, and use a time to move it with the mouse. 

[JR Boulay · Accepted solution]

OK, thank you guys.

But I talk too much, I told my client, who did not know, that the Stamps palette is directly accessible in the commenting tools. So he no longer needs a script.

🙂

[Thom Parker]

Ha ha, The simple obvious solutions are always the best 😉