Apply multiple PDF text stamps to A range of pages in multiple PDF files

Mapsoft Impress Pro: Advanced Text Stamping Plugin for Adobe® Acrobat®

Enhance your PDF workflows with Mapsoft’s Impress Pro plugin, designed for versatile and customizable pdf text stamping in Adobe® Acrobat®, including bates stamping of pdfs.

  • Use any font and/or select globally available fonts that don’t need to be embedded.
  • As a watermark or foreground.
  • With transparency options.
  • Text stamps can be set In a fixed position relative to any edge of the page or diagonally.
  • Various rotations can be set.
  • Using variables such as date, time and page numbering.
  • Option of using numbering systems such as Bates numbering and stamping of PDFs, Roman etc.
  • Run over batches of files and folders.
  • Use multiple text stamps in one run.
  • You can set optional security, open options, and document properties simultaneously.
  • Color selection for the text with pre-set colors or custom RGB/CMYK values.
  • Outline feature for text.
  • Line spacing customization for text.
  • Page range selection to apply impressions on all, specified, or a range of pages.
  • Page spread options to choose from odd and even pages, odd pages only, or even pages only.
  • Use of a clipping area to constrain the impression within a specific part of the page.
  • Adjustments for page rotations to ensure the impression aligns correctly with the page content.
  • Save functionality for impressions, allowing users to store and reuse settings.
  • Preview button to visualize the impression before applying.
  • Apply impressions to multiple documents, suggested by the ‘Apply’ tab and its description.

Impress Pro is an Acrobat plug-in that allows you to add a text impression (PDF text stamp) or multiple impressions to a range of pages in one or more PDF files. Version 2.1 of Impress Pro includes several enhancements based on feedback from our customers.

Additional Features

In addition to the PDF text stamping features in Impress Pro, you can conveniently set the document information fields, the default index, a base URL, the open defaults, and security all at once. These settings remain unchanged unless you set them (the cross on each tab turns into a tick). You can also print documents with an impression without permanently altering them (Impress Pro needs to be installed).

You can set text impressions either as watermarks, which appear on a layer below all existing text and images, or above existing text, where you can use them for headers and footers, page numbering, etc. Alternatively, you can use transparency in the background. You can set variables to define page numbering, total number of pages, and date and time in a variety of formats.

text stamping options. bates stamping

PDF Text Stamping Options

The following pdf text stamping options are available to allow you to control the impression with which you want to mark your document:

Text

The text to be used for marking the specified pages of your document. The text you specify here will appear on the relevant pages within your PDF file. Within the text, you can enter some special fields relating to page numbering, Bates numbering and date/time stamps. These fields will be replaced with their specific values when you impress your PDF file. These fields can be date and time stamps, page numbering, page counts and page ranges and bates stamping in the pdfs. Version 2.1 has helper dialogs to set these variables easily.

Alignment

Controls the alignment used for your text stamp. Alignment options are Left, Centre and Right.

Name

The name of this impression. To reuse an existing text stamp impression (either one you created previously, or one of the samples supplied with Impress) make your selection from the drop-down list associated with this field.

Position

Controls the horizontal and vertical positioning of the impression within a page, and its angle. Version 2.1has built-in defaults for diagonal centred text and coordinates can now be set from the top or the bottom of the page.

Layer

Controls whether the text appears in the foreground or background of the specified PDF page(s).

Font

Controls the font settings for your impression. Version 2.1 allows you to use any font available on your system, and the text can be invisible or outlined for situations where watermarks might be obscured. If the file is only to be viewed in Acrobat 5, you can use the transparency feature.

Colour

Sets the colour of the impression either with pre-set colours or as RGB or CMYK. Version 2.1 has a custom Gray and CMYK selection tools.

Transparency

Controls the level of transparency for your overlay text. Content below can be seen through the text.

Page Range

Specifies the pdf pages which you wish to mark with this impression.

Page Spread

You can specify the page spread of pages within the specified range to be marked with the impression. These options include Odd and Even Pages, Odd pages only, and Even pages only.

Document Info Fields

Impress Pro also enables you to set document information, including the index to mount when the document is opened and the base URL. Version 2.1 allows you to save a set of defaults.

information fields - subject, author, keywords, title, index, base url

Setting of Document Open Defaults

Impress Pro will also enable the setting of document open defaults. The view options may be set not to change any existing defaults. Version 2.1 allows the saving of a set of defaults.

open options

Security

Impress Pro can also be used to set security in all of the selected documents. Version 2.1 allows the saving of a set of defaults.

security options

Application of Impressions and File Handling

The Apply screen in Impress Pro controls how you can use this plug-in in different modes.

save pdf file options

Available modes are:

  • None – specifies that the system will not apply any Impression to documents. However, you can still use the batch facilities to set Information, open, or security defaults independently.
  • Current impression – the system will use the impression set on the Impression tab.
  • Selected impressions – the system uses one or more pre-saved impressions from the impressions list.
  • Current document – the system processes only the currently open document.
  • Multiple documents – you can select a batch of PDF files. Version 2.1 now supports directory selection and subdirectory recursion. You can also import file paths from a list and save them to a list.
  • The Mapsoft PDF Plug-ins are especially useful where there is a requirement to comment, markup or edit PDF documents for publishing purposes especially where automation may be an important factor.

    To try Impress Pro please register to download the tryout version. The tryout version has no time limit. Instead, it stamps the text “Impress Pro Tryout” onto each page in addition to the text you stamp yourself.

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