Exhibits are documents attached to pleadings or contracts which are referenced by the main document.
Exhibits generally are numbered (1, 2, 3) or lettered (A, B, C) consecutively in the order they are first encountered in the body of the referencing document (brief, contract, etc.).
In order to easily tell one exhibit from another, case documents are often stamped with an easy-to-see exhibit stamp:
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Since PDF is the defacto (or often mandated) eFiling standard, it didn’t come as a surprise that I’ve received a few emails on this exhibit stamping PDFs over the last couple of years.
I’ve written previously about creating custom stamps, but an Exhibit Stamp has both a static graphic element and a changing numeric or alphabetic element. I have proposed a workaround using watermarks and the typewriter tool to some firms, but that still was a lot of work.
Only recently have I come across an elegant solution that can accomplish both steps with a click! When you stamp the document, Acrobat will ask you for the exhibit number, then stamp it on the document:
Read the full article to download a special stamp set that does the work for you.
Try these Two-line Dynamic Exhibit Stamps
I received a lot of positive correspondence after I created and posted a set of Dynamic Exhibit Stamps in my blog article Add Dynamic Exhibit Stamps in Acrobat using a free stamp set.
If you followed the instructions in the article, a new, dynamic stamp was installed in the Comment and Markup toolbar.
When you use the stamp, Acrobat . . .
A number of lawyers pointed out that they need to stamp more than just the exhibit number.
David Masters, author of the book “The Lawyers Guide to Adobe Acrobat“, emailed me this:
The job then was to create a dynamic stamp which asked for two lines of input. More importantly, the stamp should be able to be customized.
Mission accomplished and delivered in this blog article!
Once applied, a stamp looks like this:
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