Print to PDF...including letterhead

[Sockpuppet]

Hi guys,

I'd like to be able to create pdfs from word etc directly but include a letter head behind the writing.

At the moment I can print directly to a virtual printer which creates a pdf but doesn't have the option to put a letter head in there.

Does anyone know of something that can do this. I can do it but requires me to open the pdf in an editor and add the page manually. I'd rather be able for it to do it automatically as I print just like I do now.

Cheers

[OrangeHopper]

Do you not just add the letter head to the word header?

[HairyArsedBloke]

I have a set of MS Word Templates that I create letters, invoices, etc from. Those templates have all the letterhead, address, company details, what have you, in them. When I want a, say, letter, I just do new and pick a template, enter whatever and print (to pdf if required). Is that what you want to do?

[Fred Bloggs]

Or use pre-printed letter head stationary I guess?

[Sockpuppet]

Do you not just add the letter head to the word header?

I did think that but I also need to "print" stuff from other packages as well which as they are analysis then the branding would be good to stop someone passing it off as thier own.

Or use pre-printed letter head stationary I guess?

Which is a little hard to e-mail

[Fred Bloggs]

Which is a little hard to e-mail

[TheRefactornator]

PDFill http://www.pdfill.com/ comes pretty close to what you want to do but it's not exactly right.

It comes with it's own PDF printer (not tried it but I guess it works the same as CutePDF which is what I use) and it also comes with a free set of tools called PDFFill PDF Tools which can be used to add header and footer information into an existing PDF: http://www.pdfill.com/pdftool_headerfooter.html

What you need is some way to hook your PDF printer pdf file output to PDF Tools to work in a single action...it probably requires command line support in PDF Tools which I'm pretty sure it doesn't have right now, but that would enable you to cobble a batch file together to do the work...it might be worth an email to support@PDFill.com

[Sockpuppet]

It comes with it's own PDF printer (not tried it but I guess it works the same as CutePDF which is what I use) and it also comes with a free set of tools called PDFFill PDF Tools which can be used to add header and footer information into an existing PDF: http://www.pdfill.com/pdftool_headerfooter.html

I also use CutePDF. The CutePDF Pro allows me to do exactly what I want - just requires 2 stages (i.e. print then open pdf and add backgrounds).

I'll keep searching and report back.

[TheRefactornator]

The CutePDF Pro allows me to do exactly what I want - just requires 2 stages (i.e. print then open pdf and add backgrounds).

ah right the pro version...being a skin flint I'm using the free version. The CutePDF creator SDK would do the job but you'd need to integrate that with your own code. And it's not cheap either...$499 + $199 for security if you need that. It might not be a viable option.

[ratewhore]

This comes OOTB on my mac...