Add header and footer to locked page

[TechnipDave]

Hi, we're trying to add headers and footers to locked pages.  
Long story short: We get about 300 pages of signed documents that we used a script on to flatten the documents then we could add headers and footers to the pages and save as a new PDF.  However, the addon is too old and does not work any longer.

Is there any other way to do this?  At present we are running "Optimize PDF" with a few settings and that works but it is not an ideal solution.  We would like to take the 300+ pages, keep them locked (either via saving as image or something), merge them all together, and add a footer (like page numbers, dates, etc...)

[Bernd Alheit]

What addon does you use?

[TechnipDave]

Flatten Pages.  It runs what I assume is java script code but that code seems to be broken or no longer usable.

[Bernd Alheit]

What happens when you use the script?

[TechnipDave]

Nothing.  Also, when importing the script, it states that our version of Adobe is too new.  It was made for X and lower but we have DC.

[Bernd Alheit]

In Acrobat Pro you can use flatten pages in the preflight tool.

[TechnipDave]

We'll try that, thanks Bernd.

[Thom Parker]

You can download a new flatten tool here:

https://www.pdfscripting.com/public/Free_Acrobat_Automation_Tools.cfm

[TechnipDave]

Thanks for the link.  We did try that flatten tool and it also failed.

[Bernd Alheit]

Any error message?

[TechnipDave]

No, no error.  Just didn't work.

[Thom Parker]

I'm sure you know that the issue with your PDFs is that they are signed. The effort you are going through is to basically remove the signatures so the header/footer can be applied. 

But, if these are your signatures, then you can write a scirpt to un-sign the PDF. If these are not your signatures, then printing might be the only way to remove them. There is also a way to write a plug-in to strip out the signatures and automate your entire process. Contact me through www.windjack.com if you are interested in such a solution.