Making stationary from a PDF?

Zascar

I got some nice stationary designed which I have in pdf format. I can print it out no problem, and then e.g. type a letter in Word and print on top of it, but ideally I would like to be able to create a word template with the stationary so I can just open it as stationary, type the document and print it out, or email it.

Can anyone give me some tips on how I can do this? Or is there a better way around it, maybe I can create documents from inside adobe and print/email them from there?

Advice appreciated,
Thanks.

WillieDH

import it into a word document as a graphics, use the graphic select in adobe acrobat and then coy / paste into word.

then save the word file as a template .dot

WillieDH

copy / paste not coy / paste oops

Zascar

Thanks Willie,
Unless I'm doing somehting wrong that just seems to past a huge image onto the page which I cannot type over. The Stationary has a header and a footer and I need it to be 'in the background'. as far as typing a wod doc goes, it needs to be as if it is a blank page...

any ideas??

Captain Trips

You can adjust the properties of the image loaded to be foreground or background, and whether text types on top or around it. There are a million options in Word for that.

Capt'n Midnight

Zascar wrote:

I got some nice stationary designed

You should be able to go back to the people who designed it and get the original unless there is a copyright issue in which case copying into word might also be a copyright issue. In adobe reader - you should be able to see the properties of the doc , and maybe able to select and copy text and graphics out.

If however, the stationary was designed manually and then scanned in , you would only be able to use it as an image and they you have to go through the pain of word margins - on a new doc - choose the printer you will be using then the margins are set to 0 first and then let word "fix" it to the printable area. Then you can start sorting out the image.

Fibonacci

Zascar wrote:

Thanks Willie,
Unless I'm doing somehting wrong that just seems to past a huge image onto the page which I cannot type over. The Stationary has a header and a footer and I need it to be 'in the background'. as far as typing a wod doc goes, it needs to be as if it is a blank page...

any ideas??

In Word: Format/Background/Fill Effects/Picture....

Will place it as the background of your doc.

WillieDH

or you can right click on the graphic you imported and choose

Order - then send to back

But the other guy is right, contact the design company and ask them to give it to you in word

Depending on the printer, you might have problems with print out, because the file size per page will be huge.