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January 31, 2008
Ensuring the PDF Comments Get Printed
Attorneys and other legal professionals use Acrobat comments and annotations to stamp their signature on documents, add highlights, circle important passages, etc.
I recently received this email message from an attorney:
I use the Stamp tool to affix a graphic of my signature to pleadings before e-filing them or sharing them with other counsel. But recipients who fail to choose to print with "Document and Markups" produce a doc that lacks my signature. So, I've taken to flattening them by printing to my PDF driver, but that produces a doc of embarassingly poor quality.
Some Background
Acrobat offers the ability to print documents with or without comments. If you choose File—>Print, you will see the following option:
If you had a heavily commented document with lots of highlights, you may wish to print a clean copy by choosing the "Document" option.
Once you select an option here, the setting is sticky for the next time you print from Acrobat.
Unfortunately, signature stamps are also a type of annotation. If your client or colleague has recently chosen the "Document" option, the important agreement you worked on won't have your signature.
Fortunately, there are some good workarounds:
- Flatten the document so that Stamps and Annotations become part of the document layer
- Embed your signature as an image, rather than a stamp
- Add a special "Print with Comments" button to your document.
In this article, I'll discuss these three workarounds. Read on to learn about them.
January 29, 2008
What's going to be in the next version of Acrobat?
Many legal users, especially those that look after technology for larger firms, have a real interest in planning ahead for new technology purchases.
Since PDF has become the de facto eFiling format and a paper replacement, use of Adobe Acrobat is nearly ubiquitous across law firms.
It is advantageous to know as much as you can about new software that will arrive in the months ahead. With that knowledge, you can plan your budget, anticipate training needs and investigate how the new product will fit into your existing infrastructure.
What new features will be in the next version of Acrobat?
I can't tell you here, but you may be able to find out yourself by signing up for Adobe's Pre-release Program.
Read on for more information about Adobe's Pre-release Program.