imageplacer is a very powerful publishing tool which allows you to stamp a graphical image onto specified pages within a pdf document. the graphic can be stamped as an overlay, or as a watermark. overlays appear in the foreground of the appropriate page. watermarks appear in the background of the page behind any existing text. images stamped as an overlay can also be transparent.

mapsoft impress, an acrobat plug-in, is a powerful desktop publishing tool that enables text to be added to a range of pages in a pdf file (text stamping). it can be used for headers and footers, page numbering etc. variables can be set to define page numbering, total number of pages and date and time. bates numbering is supported. it also supports the foreign language characters in acrobat base fonts such as times, helvetica, courier.