Comments on: PDF Pen Does OCR and Bates Stamping

By: Pietro Barbieri

Pietro Barbieri — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:24:59 +0000

I second the request for code that will allow the Bates stamp to begin at a number other than 0

Until then i guess it is A. 00001 to 000025, then B 00001 to 0000etc.

Peter Barbieri esq.

By: Robin

Robin — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 18:35:59 +0000

Thanks for the tip. Next item on wish list: setting the starting page number.

By: John

John — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 20:42:12 +0000

Robin,

In the script, look for this line:

set currentPage to prepend_value & my add_leading_zeros(pageNumber, 5) as rich text

Change the number “5″ to the number of zeroes desired. I just tried it and it works. I reset mine to “0″

By: Robin

Robin — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 13:09:10 +0000

I had the same issue with placement of the bates stamp. I emailed PDFPen and asked about it. They emailed back within an hour or so. I was able to tweek the AppleScript and moved the bates stamp to the right side of the page. Suggestion: do a “save as” of the original bates applescript so that you’ll have the original to go back to in case the tweeking goes awry. Here’s what PDFPen emailed to me:
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If you tweak the AppleScript’s x and y values you can adjust it. Look at this line and adjust until it meets our needs.:

make new text imprint at end of imprints of thePage with properties {rich text:currentPage, x position:36, y position:36, height:16, width:540}

You can find the script in [Home]/Library/Application Support/PDFpen/Scripts

Thanks for using PDFPen from SmileOnMyMac!
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I would also like to be able to set the starting page number (but didn’t ask about how to do that) and would also like to decrease the number of leading “0″s.

Another tip, if some of the pages have a dark background in the area of the Bates stamp, you can click the stamp for that page and edit the attributes so the background is a solid white to help the stamp stand out.