About Michael Jahn Expertise Any and all questions related to creating and modifying PDF files for use in prepress and printing environments.
Experience After being a director of a prepress company, I was involved in development and was product manager to several prepress products related to PDF creation, production and submission to high end printing environments.
Organizations PODi, IPA, Acrobat Users Group, (and was technical director of SGAUA - the Scitex Graphic Arts User Association - what we used to call the Floor Top Publishing systems back in the 80's!
Education/Credentials BS in Biomedical communications, University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign
Awards and Honors AGFA's PDF Evangelist - was honored to receive, of behalf of AGFA, an award for shipping the 1st PostScript 3 RIP (AGFA Taipan) from Adobe
Past/Present Clients I have been a consultant to many developers. SGAUA (Scitex), 4-Sight, AGFA, Enfocus, Pantone, and currently, ELAN GMK
Expert: Michael Jahn Date: 5/23/2007 Subject: Inserting text into a PDF file
Question I have a company letterhead scanned and saved as a pdf file, and I want to use this document as stationary, i.e. type on to this document. Please can you give me a step by step guide? I would appreciate it.
Many thanks Jamie
Answer Acrobat is not a word processor, and PDF files are meant to be displayed, not edited - but you probably already knew that ! You cannot create new text or edit text using the free Adobe Acrobat Reader application. Most people would probably suggest to you that any letter you would write probably needs text formatting, and you would be far better off using some free application to create text in and 'place' your letterhead graphics as images into that - You can open the PDF and in Adobe Acrobat 7 Pro (for example) go under the Tools Menu, select Advanced Editing, then cascade select Text Field tool. Click and drag to create a text box, then double click on that box - in the Text field properties, be sure to go to the options tab and place checks next to (turn on) Multi-line, Scroll and Allow rich formatting - If this is too complex (or if you don't have Acrobat Pro) e-mail the scanned letterhead to michaelejahn@gmail.com and I will make it for you!
