client of mine made a custom dynamic stamp and they can get it set up fine (dynamic field inserted in the stamp) and in the correct folder where it pulls the other stamps, but it is not finding it in the stamp list in the program, is what they've told me. This was functioning properly in our old computer when they were an earlier version of Acrobat. I want to know how I can get it to show up. The custom stamp I believe is a jpg cause it was created in photoshop.
I'm confused, you say they created a dynamic stamp by inserting a field into an existing stamp, but then you say that it was functioning on your old computer. So did they create the stamp or did they copy it from your old computer?
And by the "stamp list" do you mean all stamps? or just the one that they created?
The image the stamp was created from is not important. For a stamp to be recognized by Acrobat it has to be in a properly formatted stamp file, in the correct location.
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I think perhaps I did not word my original question correctly so I've reworded it:
A client of mine made a custom dynamic stamp (dynamic date/time field inserted in the stamp) that worked properly in an earlier version of Acrobat, something pre- Acrobat 9. She created the stamp the same way on her new computer that uses Acrobat 9 and it appears in the same document as the other standard dynamic stamps but the stamp feature in Acrobat 9 does not recognize the new stamp. She has been unable to get Acrobat 9 to recognize this new stamp and put it in the dynamic stamps list.
The Acrobat/Reader stamp file specification has not changed sinced Acrobat/Reader 6. So if the stamped worked in an earlier verion it will work in Acrobat 9 and later as well. Since she recreated the stamp it is very likely that she did something different, because it sounds like the stamp was made incorrectly.
Not all pages in the stamp file are stamps. Stamp pages are marked in a special way. You typically make a dynamic stamp by first creating a static stamp, and then manually modifying that static stamp. So, did she create a static stamp first? and does this static stamp show up where it should on the stamp menus? This is the starting point for a dynamic stamp, and the first thing that should be checked before adding dynamic features to the stamp file. See the link below for the "All About PDF Stamps" book. You'll find everything you need to know about creating stamps there.
BTW: it is not a good idea to add new custom stamps to the built-in stamps, and especially if it means editing the original built-in dynamic stamp file. It is much better to create your own stamp categories.
You also need to restart Acrobat after creating the dynamic stamp file.
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