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Acrobat 8 - Customizing headers

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2008-05-10 23:40:52
AlScott
Registered: Nov 2 2007
Posts: 123

OK - forgive me if this has been covered - but I can't find anything appertaining to this one:

With Word you can have all sorts of things as headers; pictures/tables etc etc.
Now what I want to do is to create a PDF (a manual - not a form) which contains a Table covering subjects like Dept, Distribution, Prepared By....etc..

So - i've got a Word version, that was easy. But the Acrobat doesn't give me that privilege.

The reason I want to do this is so the readers can amend ( using editable fields) those details. Yes - I know I could paste this on every page - but I've got nearly 200 pages.

Also what I want is to include the Topic title (from the Word Doc) to appear BEFORE the Table rather than after it.

Not sure if this is a "YES" answer or "NO", but I'd welcome any ideas!!

Thanks
Al

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My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 8.1.2, Windows
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2008-05-13 21:23:18
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shengja
Registered: May 5 2008
Posts: 5
This software's manual assumes that anyone using it already has prior knowledge about pdf files and how they work.
This one may help.

Some sites:

http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/access_booklet.php
http://www.espere.org/pdffile.htm
http://desktoppub.about.com/od/pdftutorials/PDF_Tutorials.htm


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2008-05-14 19:11:05
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AlScott
Registered: Nov 2 2007
Posts: 123
To answer your question I do have knowledge of PDF files.
Acrobat header options as they are only cover filename/page/date etc. You don't seem to be able to add a "full-header" that includes graphics etc.
I wanted to know if there were any tricks folks were aware of that I might have missed.
There's no call for facetious answers as you have written.
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2008-05-15 01:54:32
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AlScott
Registered: Nov 2 2007
Posts: 123
Ok - I think I might have 'cracked this one - if anyone is interested. It's a bit 'messy'.
This is what you do.....Make your "heading" - in this case it was as my initial note.
Convert it to a JPG (so we now have a picture). Using Picture editor trim down to just the bit you want.
Now in your PDF document set it as a 'watermark', and position it on the page as you wish. In my case it's a near the top.
Doing it this way you do get a chance to do your footers/headers as normal. But you have to 'tweak' your document's margins to make sure there's no overlap. Next step is to see if it's possible to get a 'user' field patten to automatically appear in each page over the top of the 'water-mark'

Any ideas/comments more than welcome!!
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