Chapter 12. Working with Stamp Comments

Stamps are comment tools that you use to approve a document, mark a document as a draft, indicate where a signature is needed, and perform a host of other purposes. When you install Adobe Reader, many different business stamps are installed along with it. In addition to the installed stamps, you can create custom stamps using any PDF file. And all stamps, whether custom or preinstalled, have associated note pop-up windows.

Along with the Stamp tool, Adobe Reader provides you with a tool that lets you paste clipboard data and then use the pasted data to create a custom stamp. To understand the power of creating and using custom stamps, you need to expand your thinking a little. What makes these tools so valuable is that they are the only way you can add images to a PDF document in Adobe Reader to help you communicate concepts and ideas among your workgroup.

As with all the other comment tools, stamps are available to you only when you're working on a PDF document enabled with Adobe Reader usage rights.