What PdfStamper does for you

• add page numbers to a number of pdf files within (source) directory

• it numbers consecutively, starting with page 1

• PdfStamper NEVER modifies the source pdf's - it will ALWAYS copy them (page-by-page) to a target directory and add content only on the newly created copies.

• On the UI, you can configure a file-prefix and page-number-prefix.

I started work on a major rewrite as native Mac-OS application. The previous Griffon
version has moved to subdirectory ./griffon-stamper

Prerequisites

• all pdf files are located within (current or configured) directory

• all pdf files (should currently) have A4 size and portrait orientation

• page bottom has enough free space to add pagenumber and prefix

System requirements

• You need a Java (6 or later) runtime installed on your machine.

Limitations

Currently PdfStamper cannot:

• combine Pdf's into single file
• add graphics in header or footer
• add Pdf security to output files
• add the total-nr-of-pages to header or footer

Bugs, Issues and Requests

Please use the issue-tracker at bitbucket.

Documentation

The documentation will grow into an arc42 example - it's currently just a beginning. Find the stuff in the /doc diretory (PdfStamper_arc42.md).

Future Plans

Software

• create an index: collect keywords from the pdf files, sort them and create a nicely formated index.

• stamp a header (in addition to the current footer)

• make the positions for page numbers configurable

• stamp pdf files of arbitrary page dimensions

• calculate the page number position on per-page-basis, instead of having a fix one

• preview generated files

Documentation

• Use PdfStamper as an example for arc42.