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Subject:Re: Faster watermarker for PDFs From:"Susan W Gallagher" <susanwg -at- gmail -dot- com> To:"Dan Goldstein" <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com> Date:Mon, 15 Oct 2007 13:14:56 -0700
What kind of document are you generating the pdf from? If Word, you can use
Word's Watermark feature. If Frame, you can add the watermark to the master
page(s). Either way should be faster than letting Acrobat do it.
HTH
-Sue Gallagher
On 10/15/07, Dan Goldstein <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com> wrote:
>
> I currently use Acrobat 6.0 to add a watermark that identifies obsolete
> documents (Document => Add Watermark & Background). Obsolete documents
> are saved only as PDFs, and the watermark is required by our procedures.
>
> Even with a GB of RAM, Acrobat takes a long time to place the watermark.
> It also dramatically increases the document size; I solve this problem
> with File => Reduce File Size, but that's also pretty time-consuming.
>
> Is there a faster tool for placing watermarks on PDFs? And if that tool
> also increases the file size significantly, is there a faster tool for
> reducing PDF file size?
>
>
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