I recently did a Digital Signatures eSeminar (you can watch the recording here), and one of the top questions asked was:

How do I flatten a PDF document so my signature stamp cannot be easily removed?

In previous articles (1, 2) I’ve discussed how to scan in your signature and create a stamp which you can use to “sign” documents.

Once you place the signature on your document, it appears as an annotation in a layer on top of the base document.

This allows you to move or delete the stamp.

However, the recipient of your file can also move or delete your stamp, or print without your stamp showing.

That is worrisome . . .

The solution is to flatten the document before sending it out.

Flattening means to move the stamp information to the main document layer so it will always print and cannot be selected and deleted easily.

Many folks simply print the document to the AdobePDF print driver. However, that process takes several steps.

In this article I’ll show you how to download and install a free script that adds two menu items to Acrobat:

Read on to learn how to:

• Download the free Flatten Pages script
• Install the Script
• Use the Flatten Pages feature
• Issues and Caveats
• Electronic vs Digital Signatures

Client Profiles is pleased to announce that the St. Louis, Missouri firm of Paul J. Passanante, PC & Associates has selected the Profiles Plaintiff Case and Financial Management Suite. The firm is led by Paul Passanante, a trial lawyer with more than 32 years of experience who has won many multimillion-dollar personal injury cases and has recently been selected for the 2010 edition of “The Best Lawyers in America”. The firm chose Profiles Plaintiff in order to consolidate all of its case management and accounting functions into one easy-to-use program, since it was previously using separate applications for front office…

Tom Balthasar, IT Director at Cellino & Barnes personal injury firm, sits down with Client Profiles CEO Whit McIsaac inside the Client Profiles booth at LegalTech New York 2010 to discuss Profiles 4Plaintiff.

Shortly after posting my article on Dynamic Exhibit Stamps, I received this request:

Can you have an interactive Received stamp? I need to stamp incoming mail with the date I received it, although it would also be nice to stamp items with my own text.

Well, sure! I produced a set of four stamps (Paid and Received) that can either:

Stamp with the current date

Ask you for information and stamp that on the document

Follow the MORE below for:

• How it works
• Download
• Installation
• How to use the stamp

Enjoy!

The always suave Mark Middleton and I will be hitting the "interwebz" for a series of educational eSeminars over next few months.

Not all of these eSeminars are legal-specific, but many of them offer content that may be of interest.

• All eSeminars are FREE
• 1-hour long
• Register Online for as many as you want

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