Can I create a page border using Adobe Acrobat Pro 9?

[maeganproehl]

I'm making a certificate of completion and would like to create a page border.  Is there any way to do this is Adobe Acrobat Pro 9?

[try67 · Accepted solution]

Do you mean just a black border around the page? You can use a text field.

Set its fill color to transparent and the border color to black (or

whatever color you want) and draw it along the edges of the page.

[maeganproehl]

Thank you so much – that worked! Have a great day! ☺

[CBDataPro]

How do I create a text field that goes around an existing PDF page?  Am a real newbie to Acrobat and am under the gun to get a booklet done by tomorrow...thanks for any help you can give.

[George_Johnson]

You just make it as large as the page. A field border only has three thickness to choose from, so this approach is somewhat limited. Another approach to this would be to create a page in another application that has the border you want and convert it to PDF, and then add it to the document as a background, which you can do in Acrobat.

[CBDataPro]

Thank you, George!  It worked when I finally found the Text box quick icon so I could create a full page text box.  But I do have another question.  I want to change the size of all of the PDFs in a file to fit on an 8.5 x 5.5 page (booklet I'm doing).  Every time I click on crop and double click and get the page where I can customize the size, the minute I click OK, it gives me a message "Page size may not be reduced".  How do I get the pages to the right size?

[George_Johnson]

If what you want to do is scale a page down to a smaller size, Acrobat doesn't do that, not directly anyway. I think there are plugins for Acrobat that can do this.

if you're desperate and/or don't want to go to that expense, there is a hack available in Acrobat that can get you there. If you've added other interactive elements (links, bookmarks, etc.), you'd have to recreate them. Post again, preferably in a new topic (since it doesn't apply to this one), for more info.

[CBDataPro]

Actually, it lets me resize.  I just grab the entire PDF as an Object and it turns everything into boxes.  I then grab the top left corner of the "object" and drag it diagonally across and it reduces, proportionally, everything.  I just don't have a way of measuring exactly what size it ends up being...any suggestions?

[Bill12]

You could also use the rectangle markup tool. If you want it to be part of the document and not just a markup, you would have to flatten the page.