Digital stamps for PDF and Word
The practical side of stamping a document that is never going to be paper. Transparency and why a plain image lands as a white box, the formats that survive a printer, and how to keep a set of stamps organised so the right one gets used.
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- Stamp without printing 29 August 2026: Print it. Stamp it. Scan it. Email it. Four steps, fifteen minutes and a document that looks worse than the one you started with. There is a version of this that takes ten seconds.
- Digital stamp library 29 August 2026: A team with one stamp uses it for everything. A team with twenty uses the wrong one. The fix is naming and custody, not more stamps.
- Transparent stamp 29 August 2026: The white box behind a stamp is the commonest failure in office documents, and it comes from one thing: a format that cannot store transparency at all.
- PDF stamp 28 August 2026: Stamping a PDF is a two minute job that goes wrong in the same five ways, and every one of them is visible to whoever receives the file.
- Physical stamp problems 16 August 2026: A rubber stamp works perfectly until the day it does not, and the ways it fails are predictable. Here are eight of them, and an honest account of which ones a digital stamp solves.
- Stamps and deal speed 16 August 2026: Deals do not usually stall on price. They stall on the twenty minutes of mechanics after everyone has already agreed.
- Print, stamp, scan 15 August 2026: One of the last genuinely pointless paper loops in an office, and an honest look at what removing it does and does not achieve.
- E-stamp 12 August 2026: The stamp outlasted the typewriter and the fax machine. Here is what finally changed, and what a digital one does that a rubber one cannot.