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How to blend a picture file into the base document

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March 6, 2019
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I am looking to place a picture file onto a base document and them "blend" that picture into the base document such that it becomes part of the base document and isn't able to be selected or edited separately to the base document.

The base document is often a scanned document, but it could also be an editable document that when I am finished with it, I want to bled it all together into something that is as if it had been scanned in.

In my example above I am placing a signature graphic on the file and I don't want it to be selectable in the final document. I am aware of digital signatures and password protecting the document, but for other reasons I don't want to use either of those to protect the signature.

Is there a way to make my edited document behave as if it is a scanned document as a final product?

I have tried "Print as a PDF" and "Flatten" a few other variants, but each of them still leaves the signature graphic as selectable.

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Vincent30985203lm5e

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Well, what I did is pasted a snapshot from one PDF into another. I then took a snapshot of that whole page, went to the pages drop down and inserted from clipboard. It created a new page and i deleted the original.

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Brainiac

It really isn't even about low level opportunists. Using ordinary non-technical knowledge you can save anything you see on screen to a BMP file, and I'd expect any Windows or Mac user to know how to do it...

The problem with any solution you come up with is that Adobe have a team working hard to make every aspect of PDF editable. What you find one week, could stop the next. Really, I'd give up.

tc95596816Author

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I'm still hoping there is a way out there to place a graphic/signature into a PDF and have an algorithm merge it into the base document.

Pie in the sky perhaps, but it sounds pretty simple to me being one fairly ignorant of the workings of PDF's and Acrobat.

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Brainiac

Bear in mind that the written signature in your case - in every case - can still be stolen and reused on other files in seconds.

tc95596816Author

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testScreenName

I'm sure there's ways to do that out there. I guess all I can do is try to put off the lower level opportunists.

try67

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To do that you would need to add the image (either using the Add Image tool, or a button field, or as a watermark) then export the pages as images and create a new PDF from those images.

tc95596816Author

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try67

Sounds like just as much work as the PRINT-SIGN-SCAN option I am trying to avoid.

try67

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Well, it doesn't involve wasting paper nor degrading the quality of the document... But I guess that's up to you.

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BhavnaNegi

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tc95596816

You can try Watermark using Tools > Edit PDF > Watermark > Add.

Refer more https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/add-watermarks-pdfs.html

tc95596816Author

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BhavnaNegi

Watermarking is close to the solution but it falls short for my purpose. My image has no background but in saving it as a BMP or JPG to use as a watermark it gets a background and then blanks out the area around it, or greys it out if I set the opacity down.

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