Best on a tablet or a computer
Everything below tells you what DocketPDF™ does. The program itself wants room: a page grid you drag across, an index panel beside it, a page editor with an alignment grid. Those need a tablet, laptop or desktop screen.
Read the whole pitch here, then open docketpdf.com on a larger screen when you are ready to work. The Android build is laid out for large tablets, and the Linux AppImage runs on any desktop.
Jurisdictions & compliance
Pick the court. The bundle rearranges itself.
A preset is a saved reading of one court’s electronic filing or bundling requirements: how pages are numbered, whether an index page is required and where it sits, how deep bookmarks go, whether text must be searchable, whether exhibits become lettered sections.
Presets are a convenience, not legal advice. Rules are amended, local rules and standing orders exist, and individual judges have preferences that no software can know about. Confirm the current requirements of your court before you file.
The twenty presets
Electronic filing rules
US · CA Superior
Electronic bookmarks to every exhibit with a short description, text-searchable pages and sequential numbering. Six requirements.
Excerpts of record
US · 9th Circuit
Text-searchable excerpts, an index at the front, bookmarks to each document and consecutive numbering across the volume. Five requirements.
Bates production set
US discovery
Every page stamped with a prefixed, zero-padded Bates number and readable text behind it. No index page is required. Two requirements.
Sectioned bundle
England & Wales
Each index entry opens a lettered section and pages number from 1 within it — the convention in trial bundles and appeal cores. Four requirements.
Single indexed PDF
Ireland
A single indexed, paginated and bookmarked PDF with searchable text. Five requirements.
Federal court e-filing
Australia
Text-searchable PDF, sequential pagination, an index and bookmarks matching it. Five requirements.
Senior courts bundle
New Zealand
An indexed, continuously paginated bundle with bookmarks to each document. Four requirements.
Thirteen more
Also included
Further US federal and state e-filing rules, the 2nd and DC Circuits, Canada, Singapore, Hong Kong and Scotland — all on the same plan, no add-ons.
Graded, not guessed
Each requirement is shown as met, required-and-missing, or optional. The count at the top is the number of things standing between you and the preset’s own definition of done.
Fix, in place
Anything unmet carries a Fix button that takes you to the setting or panel responsible, rather than telling you to go and find it.
Export anyway
The check never blocks you. Sometimes you know better than the preset, and sometimes you are filing something the preset was never written for.