How To: Use Acrobat 7 Professional's pre-built commands to automatically apply watermarks to multi-paged PDFs.Thanks to Acrobat 7 Professional's intuitive batch process creation feature, adding watermarks to your PDFs is simple. You don't need any extra tools to get started, just a PDF to practice on.
Acrobat includes eight default batch processes, but we won't be using those for this tutorial. We're going to write our own sequence. Don't worry, it's easy to do. You don't even need to have a PDF open to begin.
1. Open Acrobat and select Advanced > Batch Processing to open the Batch Sequences dialog. The dialog will show the eight default batch processes.
2. Click the New Sequence button. When the small dialog box opens asking you to name the sequence, type in "Apply Multiple Watermarks," or whatever strikes your fancy. When you press OK, the Edit Sequence dialog appears.
3. Click the Select Commands button to add commands that make the batch process meaningful. The Edit Sequence dialog will appear.
4. We only need one command for this sequence. It's listed under the Document folder, and it's called, appropriately enough, Add Watermark & Background. Select that command, then click the Add button to move it to the right pane.
5. Now, with the Add Watermark & Background command highlighted, click the Edit button. A large dialog with several options will appear.
6. Under Type, select Add a Watermark. Check the boxes beside "Show when displaying onscreen" and "Show when printing."
7. Input the From text. We typed in "Top Secret." You can also choose an image as your watermark. Just choose "from file" and select "Browse." When you're done with the options, click OK.
8. You're now back at the Edit Batch Sequence dialog. You can choose additional options here, such as when to run the process commands. For the purposes of this tutorial, we'll just leave the option as "Ask When Sequence Is Run." However, if you're always going to use a process on a specific set of files or a folder, choose the appropriate option from the dropdown menu.
You can also select where you'd like to save the modified files when the process is complete. For this tutorial, we chose "Same Folder as Original(s)." If you click the Output Options button, you can choose how to name the modified files, and even in what format (JPEG, EPS, PDF, RTF, etc.) to save them. When you're finished, click OK, and then click OK again. You should now be back at the Batch Sequences dialog.
9. Click Run Sequence. Acrobat will display a confirmation dialog. Make sure the info is right, then click OK. If you chose to select files at run time, you'll be asked to select those files. If you chose a predetermined folder, Acrobat will run the process and notify you when done.
That's it! Check out your modified PDFs to make sure everything turned out OK.
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