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2010-07-16 13:46:26
reubenprosser
Registered: Jul 16 2010
Posts: 1

Hello, I have a simple task I want to accomplish:

Take two pdf documents, use one of them as the background (or watermark) for the other and produce a new pdf file as a result.

Basically I just want to add a standard background to pdf documents, and ideally it would do this when it prints to Acrobat distiller. (needs to be automated.) Can someone tell me the best way to accomplish this task?

Thanks!

My Product Information:
Acrobat Standard 9.3.1, Windows
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2010-07-16 15:26:57
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SeattleUser
Registered: Nov 21 2008
Posts: 108
I'm going to guess that making this an automated process for all documents will require some sort of scripting or coding. But before you do that, I presume you do know how to add a background/watermark to a single document?
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2010-07-17 01:47:04
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UVSAR
Expert
Registered: Oct 29 2008
Posts: 1357
Automatically using a [u]PDF[/u] as a watermark when printing through Distiller is no longer possible, but you can add [u]text-based[/u] watermarks using a customized prologue.ps script in the Distiller folder (assuming you generate your PDFs via your application's Print menu and don't directly export them). It's not trivial as you have to write the PostScript commands natively, but once applied it'll happen to every document printed using your new Distiller preset.

As you have Acrobat Standard, you can't use batch processing to automate the watermarking after the PDFs have been created; and applications that "export" to PDF (such as Word, InDesign, Photoshop etc) don't use Distiller at all, so can't be influenced in the same way.
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