PDF as Watermark?

[Martin Nelson]

Y'all are just SO good I feel compelled to play stump the band (I swear, as
soon as I get a new gig I'll leave you alone).

Here goes: I'm sending out my resume as an email attachment quite a bit
these days (see above parenthetical). The problem with emailing it (now that
the geniuses on this site have taught me how to make the pdf a single file)
is that prospective clients don't get to see my beautiful stationary.

I have a pdf version of said stationary and my ever-changing resume is in
Word. Is there a way --in Word-- to somehow meld these two files together.
I'm pretty sure it can be done in Adobe Acrobat, but I don't have that and,
well, I'm unemployed right now.

Ideas?

--
Martin

I'm running
Macintosh G4, Dual 800
1 GB RAM
OS X.2.8
MS Office X Service Release 1

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Not tried this myself--but screen capture the stationery from the pdf, and
insert it as an image in the header. Depending on what your stationery
looks like, Insert | Watermark using the entire page as an image file might
work best, or you might just screen capture the top of the stationery and
copy it into Word as electronic stationery. If it captures fine, it should
be just like any other image, and you can send it to the back if you need to
type over it.

You might have Grab to do the screen capture--check MacHelp if you aren't
sure.

Good luck job-hunting!

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

Hi Martin,

Y'all are just SO good I feel compelled to play stump the band (I swear, as
soon as I get a new gig I'll leave you alone).

Here goes: I'm sending out my resume as an email attachment quite a bit
these days (see above parenthetical). The problem with emailing it (now that
the geniuses on this site have taught me how to make the pdf a single file)
is that prospective clients don't get to see my beautiful stationary.

I'm not sure I understand what you mean here...

I have a pdf version of said stationary and my ever-changing resume is in
Word. Is there a way --in Word-- to somehow meld these two files together.

You mean a watermark ?? If this is indeed what you want, here's what the
Help says:

Add a graphic watermark to a document
1. On the Insert menu, click Watermark2. Click Picture, and then click
Select Picture.
3. Locate the picture you want to use, and then click Insert.
4. If you want to format the watermark, do one of the following:
• To turn off the washout effect, clear the Washout checkbox. Washout
increases a picture's brightness and decreases its contrast so that the
picture appears lighter than the tex•
To resize a picture by a specific percentage, select a percentage in the
Scale box or type a new vNotes
• To view a watermark as it will appear in your printed document, use
page layout view or print preview.
• If the watermark interferes with the legibility of the text on the
page, you can lighten the graphic object you used to create the
watermark.


I'm pretty sure it can be done in Adobe Acrobat, but I don't have that and,
well, I'm unemployed right now.

Good luck then :-\

Corentin

 

[Beth Rosengard]

Hi Martin,

If the PDF can be used the same way as, or converted into, a picture image,
then you could simply follow the Watermark instructions in the Word Help.

I just created a PDF of an image and then inserted the PDF into a Word
document's header (which is how you go about making a watermark). It seemed
to work fine.

Also, do you have GraphicConverter? If not, it's a relatively cheap, poor
man's Photoshop with a million uses. I converted my PDF into a JPEG using
GC and that worked too.

Hope this helps.

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[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

You mean a watermark ??

) Yeah, I know... I should have read the title of the post...

Corentin

 

[Martin Nelson]

You mean a watermark ?? If this is indeed what you want, here's what the
Help says:

Thanks Corentin, but I'm guessing Watermarks were introduced in Office 2004
and I've got X. I'm gonna try Beth's recommendation of GraphicCoverter.


--
Martin

I'm running
Macintosh G4, Dual 800
1 GB RAM
OS X.2.8
MS Office X Service Release 1

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

You mean a watermark ?? If this is indeed what you want, here's what the

Thanks Corentin, but I'm guessing Watermarks were introduced in Office 2004
and I've got X. I'm gonna try Beth's recommendation of GraphicCoverter.

They were, but it doesn't matter. All the Watermark feature does is set the
transparency and anchor the image in the header. You can duplicate it
manually, no problem.

I guess Graphic Converter will also let you set the transparency (maybe?)
but you might still want to anchor the image in the header in Word.

Daiya

 

[Beth Rosengard]

They were, but it doesn't matter.

Huh? You could create watermarks in Word 2001 (and maybe earlier).

Beth

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Thanks Corentin, but I'm guessing Watermarks were introduced in Office 2004

Huh? You could create watermarks in Word 2001 (and maybe earlier).

As a named and predefined Insert | Watermark feature that offers you a
dialog and does the work behind the scenes, they were introduced in Word
2004 (and Martin was responding to Corentin's quote from the Help explaining
how to use that dialog). But the manual method to create them has always
been available, and Help for "watermark" in Word X gives it.

DM

 

[Paul Berkowitz]

As a named and predefined Insert | Watermark feature that offers you a
dialog and does the work behind the scenes, they were introduced in Word
2004 (and Martin was responding to Corentin's quote from the Help explaining
how to use that dialog). But the manual method to create them has always
been available, and Help for "watermark" in Word X gives it.

If anyone's interested, I have a Macro, an AppleScript version of same for
Word X and earlier, and a native AppleScript version for 2004, for creating
a Watermark.

--
Paul Berkowitz
MVP MacOffice
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AppleScripts for Entourage: <http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/>

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