Overlay or watermarks PDF

[Shas91]

Hi ! I'm new on this forum and I thought I will give it a chans. I have an unsolved problem in my Accesdatabas that I can't find a sollution for... So lets start with a description of the problem...

I have a administrationprogram that we use to make our invoices in, nothing stranges, it generates a PDF and thats it. All the administration besides that is handled by my ordersystems in Access, all data is stored here and of course all action is taking place here

I want to mark the PDF invoice with data that is depending on what action You have chosen in Access... For exampel if You sending the invoice by mail You want Acess to print out two paper marked with "E-mail copy" and the email adress used "anders.andersson@and.se" I can easily generate a pdf report with this data in Access "E-mail copy" or what ever.. That's not the problem...

The problem is to combine this data to the invoice and make one PDF, like a Watermark. Is there any one who have manage to do that.. Perhaeps there is a walkaround. This is a bit frustrating, I normaly solve my problems...

Sincerly Shas91

 

[isladogs]

Hi Shas
Welcome to AWF. Your post was moderated but has now been approved.
This can happen with new members

From your description, I suggest you combine both items into one report or a report and subreport. Export that combined report to PDF and attach to the email

EDIT I've just deleted your duplicate post.
If further posts don't immediately appear, don't worry, one of us will soon approve as necessary.

 

[Galaxiom]

Edit: Wrong site. Removed link. See post #14 for the real tool.

 

[Shas91]

Ok! No problems !

Did You mean that I should first import the existing PDF from the invoiceprogram and than modifiy it and generate a new one ?

 

[Galaxiom]

Looks like pdf-tools has really changed since I last looked.

I had a free commandline version.

Edit: Link removed. Don't want to encourage the use of their product

 

[Galaxiom]

I wrote VBA program that used the commandline tools to extract the sections of the pdf. Then I substituted an image and reassembled it. It was a bit complex but I'm sure there was a watermarking function too.

 

[Shas91]

Thanks I will check this out, it seems to be a trial version so lets find out what it can do...

 

[Shas91]

Well this is not for Visual Basic... When I googled it, there is a lot of people who asked the same question but ther is no answer...

 

[Galaxiom]

You run the commandline with Shell.

 

[Shas91]

Well so far I understand, but I'm totally new on Java and C so there You got my problem... Did a try to run the exampel No luck... I don't whant to start over with a new program

 

[Galaxiom]

When I used it there was an exe that could be run from the command line with parameters to indicate the input and output filenames and what was to be done.

 

[Pat Hartman]

You shouldn't have to update the pdf file to do this. Simply add a control to the report that sits behind all the other controls. Use a very light font and set the control value to whatever you want it to say. This is essentially a watermark.

 

[Shas91]

[FONT=&quot]Hi again an god morning from Sweden !

"Galaxium" Ok You got an exe file, that would be perfect. When I down loaded the package is just example code, I believe You need some kind of platform to deal with it. I tried with Eclipse but it’s like starting all over again....

[/FONT][FONT=&quot] "Pat Hartman" You are aware of that my first PDF is generated by a complete different program... Please feel free to develop Your mindset, I’m not quite follow You…[/FONT]
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[Galaxiom]

OK I have found the right site now.
Lots of others using very similar names.

https://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-server/

 

[Shas91]

Hi again ! This seems to be exactly what I'm looking for. I have just started with it, but so far so god...

Many thanks ! I will update this thread with my result as soon as possible.