Print to pdf with letterhead

[simon1663]

Hi there,
this can be a tough one, and I can't find a solution for it.

I want to print letterhead. And when I print letterhead, I want to save the letterhead as pdf. We have a really high graphic letterhead. Currently we are having to print (physically) using a printer and then having to scan them in. Whereas most often we are emailing the printed document anyway.

Ideally we can change word or excel background but we have other vendor softwares which we can't modify. For those, printing in electronic pdf letterhead is quite important.

I can think of two ways of this being possible:

1. Setting up a printer or printer setting where the page background is the letterhead jpeg or gif. Don't know if this can be done????

2. Saving as pdf and then merging graphics of the document with the letterhead pdf with an application or applescript??


Anyway, my job is on the line of this. Any help is appreciated.

All systems are using panther 10.3.5.

Many thanks in advance..

 

[fernando.alonso]

There's this EXCELLENT software that is still helping me incredible good:
Print toPDF, that you can get at:
http://www.jwwalker.com/pages/pdf.html

I posted similar question time ago, and didn't really find any better solutions than the above, ...just for one problem... you need to use it with OS9 (it won't run on OSX). There's also an option in OSX to do smilar... but is far too bad delevering very cheap chunky graphics...

 

[pds]

Can the other software output the text that you import into Word (or NeoOffice/J if license is a problem)? Then it's simple - put the the text into a template that has the letterhead scanned and set as the header or a background pic. Panther offers a "Save as PDF" button in the print dialog.

You can write a simple macro in Word to automate it, probably with a little effort you could script a folder to do the same thing so it is completely "hand's free".

 

[simon1663]

Can the other software output the text that you import into Word (or NeoOffice/J if license is a problem)? Then it's simple - put the the text into a template that has the letterhead scanned and set as the header or a background pic. Panther offers a "Save as PDF" button in the print dialog.

You can write a simple macro in Word to automate it, probably with a little effort you could script a folder to do the same thing so it is completely "hand's free".

It is not me who will be doing this actually. It's operator who prints out invoices from multiple systems.. they are expecting a solution that is not too technical for a simple minded operator. Anyway, thanks for your help with the word macro idea... I will have a go..