Where Did My PDF Stamp File Go?

I created a stamp and it works. But now I want to modify it. Where did it go?

Your Adobe PDF viewer (Acrobat Pro, Acrobat Standard, Reader) has two folders on your hard drive where the stamp files in your stamps menu are stored. The application stamps folder contains the stamps that came with the application, like Approved, Reviewed, and Revised. These can be found under the stamps menu categories of Dynamic, Sign Here, and Standard Business.

Adobe Stamps Menu, Dynamic Category

These stamps are available to any user logged in to the computer who has the Adobe application open. The location of this folder can be determined by running the following script in the console:

app.getPath("app","stamps");

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When you drill down to the folder you might see subfolders with names like ENU, DEU, and FRA. These are the language specific subfolders (English, German, and French respectively) that contain the stamps. If your language is set to English you would use the ENU folder. You can put your own stamp files in this folder and they will show up in the stamps menu, but you would normally use the user stamps folder instead.

The user stamps folder location can be determined by running the following script in the console or downloading the folder locator tool referenced above:

app.getPath("user", "stamps");

Running the script above will return a path to a folder, but that folder might not exist yet. If it doesn’t exist you will have to create it inside the previous folder in the path. Alternatively, it will create itself if you create a stamp using the stamps menu under Custom Stamps > Create.

And that’s where the stamp file you created goes.

Adobe gives the stamp file a random name like qY0cknXb15GC1ob9Y9WIYB. If you have a number of files in the folder with names like this you can sort by Modified Date to find the one you just created, then rename the file to something recognizable. You might have to close down Adobe before it allows you to rename the file.

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Stamp File Properties

When you create a stamp with the Adobe stamps menu, the category becomes the Title property of the PDF and the Name becomes the stamp name in the menu.

Creating a PDF stamp from the Adobe stamps menu

Press Ctrl + d to view document properties

The name is also part of the template page that gets created:

Running this.templates in the console will return the template name. The part after the equal sign is the stamp name in the menu.

Building A Stamp File Without Using The Stamps Menu (From Scratch)

The video below on how to build a stamp file from scratch will help you learn the components of a stamp file.

Building A Dynamic Stamp