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martins72005115
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August 28, 2017
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Superimpose Word Document on to PDF Letterhead

  • August 28, 2017
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I regularly need to create a document in word (eg a letter) and then output it so that it ends up superimposed (merged) onto a pdf (my letterhead). At the moment I do it using freeware called Bullzip. I would like to be able to do it in Acrobat Pro DC. Does anyone know how?

    Correct answer Dov Isaacs

    There are a number of ways to do exactly what you want.

    One of the simplest ways is to use the Add Background feature of Edit PDF. Open the PDF from your Word document, open the Edit PDF tool and then under More, choose Background=>Add. You can specify an existing PDF file that you can position wherever you want on the page, at whatever magnification you want, and on whatever range of pages you want.

    Another method of doing the same thing is the Watermark function under Edit PDF. It also provides opacity controls and the ability to put the placed content either under or over the original content.

              - Dov

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    Dov Isaacs
    Dov IsaacsCorrect answer
    Legend
    August 28, 2017

    There are a number of ways to do exactly what you want.

    One of the simplest ways is to use the Add Background feature of Edit PDF. Open the PDF from your Word document, open the Edit PDF tool and then under More, choose Background=>Add. You can specify an existing PDF file that you can position wherever you want on the page, at whatever magnification you want, and on whatever range of pages you want.

    Another method of doing the same thing is the Watermark function under Edit PDF. It also provides opacity controls and the ability to put the placed content either under or over the original content.

              - Dov

    - Dov Isaacs, former Adobe Principal Scientist (April 30, 1990 - May 30, 2021)
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      martins72005115Author
      Participant
      August 28, 2017

      Thanks Dov - I used your first suggestion and saved the selected "letterhead" pdf as a custom setting so that I can repeat quickly in future. You don't happen to know how to export such a custom setting so that I don't have to do it all over again for my second pc?

      Dov Isaacs
      Dov Isaacs
      Legend
      August 28, 2017

      From within the Background tool, you can save the settings under a name.

      The file under the name you specify will be found in the directory:

          C:\Users\user-name\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Acrobat\DC\Preferences\Background\

      user-name is the userid of the user under whose ID the customer You can copy that file to other systems such that Acrobat can automatically have that background setting available for other users on other systems. Of course, you also need to have the referenced PDF file in a standard location (either on each user's system or on a common network share) as well for this to work across systems.

                - Dov

      - Dov Isaacs, former Adobe Principal Scientist (April 30, 1990 - May 30, 2021)
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        gkaiseril
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        August 28, 2017

        You can make the letterhead a template PDF then insert that letterhead PDF file into the PDF of your letter and spawn the letterhead template as an overlay. Not delete the template page from the PDF.

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