In addition to text information, it’s good branding to use your logo. And you can see that this custom com logo is all over the place in this document. If I return to the page that I added the header to in the first place, even with the text in it, it’s still pretty plain Jane. And so I’m going to go ahead and add a logo. For that I’m going to use the Watermark functionality in Acrobat. I’ll select Document, Watermark, Add, and I can add as a watermark some text but that’s not what I want to do. I want to add a file. In the Watermark dialogue box, with the Watermark tool, I’m going to add a logo to the document and again, I don’t want to add it to this page. I want to add it only to Page Two.
So the first step to take is to bring in the logo that I want to use. I can use text as a watermark but that’s not going to be a lot different than just adding the text that I did with the header and footer. What I want to do instead is add a file. So I’ll choose from File and I’m going to select a file that I want to add.
In the Lesson Six folder of Part One in the Project Files folder that you installed on your hard drive, you’ll find a file called “Logo”. And it’s a copy of this custom com logo that I’m using here. I’ll choose Open and Acrobat will bring it in. Now when people think about watermarks, this is kind of what people think about, sort of an overall graphic that sits on top of the content and I can make that object transparent to make it seem more like a true watermark. But I’m going to use this tool a little bit differently in that, I don’t want to make this transparent at all, and instead of having it sit in the middle of the page, I’m going to move it to the upper corner of the page. Plus it’s a very large logo so I’m going to go ahead and change the scale of the logo by typing in to the absolute scale 20 percent. And you can see in the preview that it made it very small. Now to move it up to the upper right hand corner, I’m going to come down to the position area, and I’m going to choose position at the top, position to the right. And it’s a little tight to the right corner of the document so I’m going to give it an offset by typing an offset amount in here. I’m going to use two tenths of an inch so I’ll type “point two” (0.2) and I’m good to go.
The final step that I want to take is I don’t necessarily want to add this to every single page of the document. Very much like I did with the header information, I only want to add it to page two. So I’m going to come to Page Range options. In this case, I’m going to choose pages two through two and click Ok. To apply the watermark, click Ok and I’m done. This page now has some branding from the watermark and from the header and footer that I added making it seem like it’s much more part of this proposal than it was as just a random blank page of some text.
At the end of the process, if I need to I can always come back to Document, Header and Footer, or Document, Watermark, and remove these things from the document and that’s very handy if I want to repurpose the page and use it somewhere else or use it with another customer, or if I change my company name or whatever I need to do. But for now, this document is set. I’ve got my navigation in place. It’s been built from a variety of documents. The pages are all set correctly, and I’ve added that last bit of polish to the document. It should be ready to deliver to the customer.
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