Circular text box

[Craigap]

Is it possible to create a circular text box? We need to put incremental numbers next to some symbols on a drawing but need them to be circular rather than square. I know I can create a circle then a text box over it, but it becomes pain to do this for 100+ numbers that I have to do.

[Stefan - PDF-XChange]

Hello Craigap,

Not a circular text box as such - however you can use a dynamic stamp that would have a circular outline and a counter inside. So all you would need to do is select the stamp once and then click on your PDF file multiple times to add consecutive counters:

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Please download the "Stamp_indexes.pdf" attachment you would find at the bottom of this post, and place it in
%Appdata%\Tracker Software\PDFXEditor\3.0\Stamps
(If this folder does not exist - open %Appdata%\Tracker Software\PDFXEditor\3.0 and then create the \Stamps subfolder manually.)

After that restart the Editor and you would now have a new stamp collection that would allow you to use those counters.

Kind regards,
Stefan

[Craigap]

Perfect, thanks Stefan.

How do you create these?

Is there a way to have more that one set of increments on a single document, differentiated by a colour for example? I'm just wondering if I can use this for counting up symbols (manually) on a drawing.

[Stefan - PDF-XChange]

Hello Craigap,

Those are created with some JS in them.
You can check the code inside the stamps collection, however we are unable to assist much further with JS coding for you, so you would need some JS knowledge on your side + probably this reference:
Adobe JS API reference.


Kind regards,
Stefan

[KD952]

Hello Stefan!

Using your custom stamp menu.

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Craigap would not need any knowledge in JavaScript.

Kind regards,
Daniel

[Stefan - PDF-XChange]

Hello KD952,

The stamps I shared with him are with some persistent counters - so I thought he might need similar ones.
Yes - using the built in tool a simple stamp can indeed be created, thanks for reminding me of that KD592!

Kind regards,
Stefan

[David.P]

The dynamic stamp stuff is awesome. While I don't seem to remember how exactly I did it back then, this is the dynamic stamp that I created some time ago. It can be used both for numbers and for text.

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[Daniel - PDF-XChange]

[cadirkin]

I have been looking for something like this. Thank you so much.
Would it be possible to update it so that a dialog box pops up and lets you enter a different starting number? For example you want to start at 100 then the next stamp would be 101.

[Daniel - PDF-XChange]

Hello, cadirkin

it should be possible with some JS knowledge to accomplish that, yes. Alas, I am not an JS expert and do not have an example of such a "set and continue" counter on hand to share.

Kind regards,

[Mathew]

For the above stamp, you could run something like this in the javascript console to change the start value:

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this.info.stampIndex = parseInt(app.response({cQuestion: "New start value:", cDefault: this.info.stampIndex})) || 0;

At some day in the future PXE may have the ability to save code snippets like this. For now, you'd just need to paste it into the console every time, or you could make a custom tool button or menu item to run it.

[KD952]

I suppose there is no point in being stingy.

Attached are the dynamic stamps I use for numbering objects.
You just have to copy the files to your "Stamps" folder.

Don't look to hard at the graphical aspect of the stamps. They were made using PDF-XChange Viewer and I didn't have a clue back then how to work with pdfs.

Using the "reset" stamp you can enter a number or letter you want and the "inc" stamp starts from this new number or letter.

Nummerierung_magenta.pdf

Nummerierung_orange.pdf

Nummerierung_rot.pdf

Nummerierung_violett.pdf

Nummerierung_blau.pdf

Nummerierung_cyan.pdf

Nummerierung_grün.pdf

[Dimitar - PDF-XChange]

Thanks for the help, KD952.

These will be a good addition to the stamp library.

Regards.

[PHK]

Thank you, KD!

[Dimitar - PDF-XChange]