combine publisher and pdf 2

[derwent]

I have a pdf that is basically the headed notepaper for the company.

People then create publisher (.pub) files and print onto pre-printed headed paper to make brochures.

Is there a way to combine the two documents so that I can have one document?? I tried converting the .pub to pdf then copy data over to headed pdf with no luck.

thanks in anticipation

 

[Eggles]

Well, no, you can't 'combine' the elements in one PDF with those in another PDF like you want to.

You must go back to the authoring software that made the headed notepaper (was it also Publisher?) and from which the PDF was made, add the new elemetns to it and then create a whole new PDF of the completed document.

 

[tgreer]

How are you creating the PDF? I often automate logo inclusion and so on with PostScript, by adding the appropriate PostScript language instructions to Distiller's prologue.ps file, or even adding code to laser printer memory.

I can help you with this, if you like. Since PostScript is "off-topic", we can discuss in the PostScript forum or offline, if you wish.

My email address is on my website.



Thomas D. Greer

http://www.tgreer.com

Providing PostScript & PDF
Training, Development & Consulting

 

[Eggles]

Thomas

It sounds like derwent is trying to add a fair bit more than a logo to the existing PDF - in fact a whole brochure. Why anyone would be printing a brochure on to a preprintd header paper, I'm not sure. Why not just include whatever is on the header paper in the Publisher file and print the whole lot at one go?

 

[derwent]

Trying to explain this, bare with me!

Think of it like an estate agent selling a house in the shop window. They would have a standard template for each ad (1 page brochure) that they then print each individual houses details onto.

This means that all they need in the office is a stanadrd lazer, not a colour printer.

Our 'template' paper is very colourful with large header and footer areas. We then print our bits onto the preprinted paper.


The company who made the templates can only supply a pdf of these but I want to be able to combine this 'background pdf' onto my publisher files.

 

[tgreer]

Yes, I understand. You can save the "background PDF" as an EPS out of Acrobat, for example. Then import the EPS into Publisher.

Or, you can go the PostScript route I described. One recent job involved an international bank with standardized forms but many different logos. I wrote a memory resident program for their output devices, that printed the appropriate logo on the document based upon keywords in the print job.

So there's a number of ways you can go about this.



Thomas D. Greer

http://www.tgreer.com

Providing PostScript & PDF
Training, Development & Consulting

 

[Eggles]

>>The company who made the templates can only supply a pdf of these but I want to be able to combine this 'background pdf' onto my publisher files.<<

But if you do this, and the only printer you have available is a B&W laser, then you won't get the colour that appears on the preprinted sheets.

But then again, if you are not concerned with the colour aspect, then as Thomas sugested, convert the PDF into an EPS (via Acrobat) and place that into the Publsiher file as you would any other graphic (this is assuming that Pub cannot place PDF files directly).

 

[derwent]

Thanks folks, I saved the pdf as an eps from acrobat, but it won`t let me insert it into Publisher, although .eps is at the top of the list when inserting an image?!?!

I also tried .jpg but the quality was awful.

 

[derwent]

think it`s ok now guys, I saved it as a tiff and it imports fine.

Thanks for the help