Creating New Stamps

Stamps can be defined for use as annotations for PDFs opened in the Therefore™ Viewer.

Creating a new Stamp

  1. Right-click on the Stamp object in the Therefore™ Solution Designer and select New Stamp.

  2. In the Stamp dialog specify a name for the stamp and then either a PNG or PDF file to be used as the image. Click OK to save the stamp.

  3. Right-click on the newly created stamp and select Security. Configure the user permissions as required. Users with Apply Stamp permission will be able to see the stamp in the list of stamps when annotating PDF files in the Therefore™ Viewer.

Creating Stamps with macros

Stamps with macros can be created using most PDF editing software.

  1. To include a macro as part of the stamp, create a textbox with the desired macro. Macros can only be included in PDF stamps, not PNG stamps. Therefore™ supports two types of macros:

    • &user (to include the username of the respondent)

    • &date (to include the current date)

  2. The &date macro can contain a “date formatting” string (e.g. &date[m/d/Y]). The list of possible options that can be used in the “date formatting” string are outlined below:

    • d – current day

    • m – current month

    • Y – current year (4 digits)

    • y – current year (2 digits)

    • H – current hour (24 hour format)

    • I – current hour (12 hour format)

    • M – current minute

    • S – current second

    • p – (AM/PM)

  3. A completed stamp can include both macros in the same image.

  4. To add created stamps to the Therefore™ Solution Designer, please refer to the points mentioned above.

Modifying Macros inside a Stamp Template

  1. In the Therefore™ Navigator, open the Repository. Expand System and go to the Templates category.

  2. Double-click on a stamp template to open it in the Therefore™ Viewer.

    The following steps only work for stamp templates that contain macros.

  3. Click Check Out to check out the template for editing. Navigate to the Annotate tab and select Text from the menu.

  4. Click 'Check In' to save the changes. From this point onwards, the new version of the stamp template will be used.