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Adding Blank Pages

whitehouse
Registered: Sep 17 2008
Posts: 21
Answered

Hello All-

I'm an auditor and I use text boxes to add workpaper notes to scanned or system generated PDF documents.

When I scan documents myself, I'll usually throw a blank paper on top to give me a blank first page to create a text box and write notes but every once in a while I'll get a system generated PDF or a previously scanned PDF sent to me.

In this particular situation I have a system document I received but all pages are full and I have no blank spaces to add a text box without covering existing data on the report. That being said, I'm looking for a way to add a blank page (as page 1) so that I can add a text box explaining the document.

Any idea how to do this? I'm familiar with combining two documents into one but I find it odd that I would need a saved blank document just to add a blank page to an existing PDF.

Thanks for any input.

///chris

My Product Information:
Acrobat Standard 9.0, Windows
daka630
Expert
Registered: Mar 1 2007
Posts: 1420
I believe you could use Acrobat javascript to add a new page to an active PDF document.
But, I think you will need Acrobat Professional for this.
Also available with the Professional version -
File > Create PDF > From Blank PageTo set the default page size:
Edit > Preferences > Default Page pane
Size - drop down menu offers 12 page sizes.
Page orientation can be portrait or landscape.
Default margins, font and font size may be set as well.

Regardless, one would have to "create" the page with some mechanism.
After all PDF is not a format designed for the type of document processing done
by authoring applications (word processors, etc.).

Of course, it never hurts to submit a feature request.
[url=http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform]Feature Request[/url]

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