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How to print actual date on secured pdfs?

Piotr
Registered: Feb 25 2009
Posts: 5

I am a beginner in Acrobat. I would like to ask you, how I can print actual date on secured pdfs. I searched it in forum posts. I found sth, but I still have problems.

I would like to print the actual date and some description on secured document in pdf.

I try to do it in such a way.

I put today date as watermark, but it is placed on document when it is not secured. Besides it when I print it the second time other day the new watermark with date is placed on the same place as before, but old one is not cleared. The date is not to read.

May I ask you about some advice: clear description and/or links solving this problem? It may be quite different way. I am not sure I did what I did is good.

Piotr

gkaiseril
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Registered: Feb 23 2006
Posts: 4307
The creator of the PDF would have to have provided a field and script to the PDF for this purpose.

George Kaiser

Piotr
Registered: Feb 25 2009
Posts: 5
When I start converter it makes a pdf document at once. There are not any steps, where I could choose options. I searched preferences, but I did not find any ones to customise reating to this topic.
Where can I find the converter or where I can set proper options?

Besides it I have many documents only in paper. I will scan them to pdfs. What then? How to place in existing pdfs actual date?

I would be really grateful if you could help me.

Piotr
daka630
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Registered: Mar 1 2007
Posts: 1420
Piotr,

The creation date of a PDF, if "built" by something to the PDF Reference,
will show the PDF file creation date in the Document Properties.
This is true no matter what the input (an application like Word or a scanned image).

To view a PDF's Document Properties: File > Properties > select Description tabPrior to creating a PDF you can configure many settings that will determine the
characteristics of the PDF.
In the Acrobat Preferences you can edit settings for how a file is converted to PDF.
Edit > Preferences > select Category "Convert To PDF" > select file format > click on the
Edit Settings... button.
Note that the settings that can be edited may be none or many.
This depends on the file format selected.

Also, if the authoring application has it, look at the configuration settings for the PDFMaker.

Another pre-PDF setup option would be the Distiller job options selected.

Once you have the PDF file created you can use Acrobat's tools to place a field on the PDF.
As George (gkaiseril) stated, you can use an Acrobat JavaScript that would populate the field
with the date.

So:
Step 1 = establish desired conversion settings
Step 2 = create the PDF
Step 2 = Create desired field or fields on the PDF
Step 3 = Use the javascript created for your task
etc.

Look over the following forums here at AcrobatUsers.com as they may provide more information
that is applicable to what you seem to desire:
The JavaScript forum
The Forms forums
The Security forum

Much useful information is available at the AUC Learning Center.
[url=http://www.acrobatusers.com/learning_center]Learning Center[/url]

Be well...

Be well...

gkaiseril
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Registered: Feb 23 2006
Posts: 4307
Adding form fields is a different and distinct step from scanning. You have to add the form field and you will also have to add a 'Will Print' JavaScript action to the scanned image. This can be done on each PDF individually through the FormsTool and Acrobat's JavaScript editor, you could write a batch process using JavaScript to add the field and JavaScript to selected PDFs, or you could add a toolbar button or menu option to add the field and script actions.

You will find a number of posts about this by using the search feature of this site.

George Kaiser