Background versus Watermark

What is the difference between adding a background or a watermark to a .PDF document header? They both appear to be the same. If so, why have two separate features?

They both have a similar dialog (and internally are both implemented using similar structures), but a Background is more limited. You can create Watermarks directly from text and have full control over their position - a Background is just a color or a graphics file loaded as a layer. That's why there are two tools.
While it's true you can place a Watermark behind the page content and make something that looks like a Background, logically it's not the same thing (just as you can put some text at the bottom of the page but it doesn't make it a real "footer").
You can only define one true Watermark and one Background per page, and often document authors want them to behave differently (for example the background may only show on screen but the watermark may only appear on printouts). These days the Background is used less often, as the software used to create PDF files (such as InDesign or Illustrator) is more than capable of exporting multi-layer PDF pages; but despite those layers doing the job of a Background or a Watermark they aren't defined the same way - which is why you can't edit them using the tools in Acrobat.

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I have several old PDFs, created between 1998 and 2002, and I am unable to add a background, watermark, or type text. I select Document => Background => Add/Replace and nothing happens. Same problem with Watermark (I select it; nothing occurs).
I have Adobe Acrobat 8 professional, version 8.1.1, and I'm working in Windows XP.
I also tried the typewriter tool, but when I try to save the document, I get the following message: "The document could not be saved. There was a problem reading this document (132)."
The PDFs can't be regenerated from the original documents. Is there anything I can do to make the PDFs accept a background?
Thanks for your help!

Try a save as to a new file name and retry. There may be something going on with the version number. I would not think this would be a problem, but it is all I can think of, except the possibility that there is some security set.

Background Image/Watermark

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Check out this thread:
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jsp?forum=57&thread=316074
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CSS : background versus background-image

Why does background and background-image produce different results?

The background-image property will display a background image. For example:
body {
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This rule will fill the page with your image, tiling it until the entire page is filled. But what if you did not want the image to repeat? What if you just wanted the image to appear in the right top corner of the page? And you also want to add a color to the background. You would have to add a few more declarations:
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Hey there,
Im new to BIP, I ususally lurk over in the OBIEE side.
Im trying to create a 'certificate' type of report in BIP, I've got it working to an extent, heres what I've done :
pull in the certificate 'skeleton' image as the background image in MS Word, plot the BIP data fields in the name, date & manager locations on the certificate etc. Repeating Group is set for each row, i get a certificate per user - perfect !
except....
the background image looks fine in Word when viewing the page at 100% in 'Print Layout' but the resulting PDF has aligned the picture differently so the location of the text fields I plot in Word is not mirrored in the PDF.
I should add the background image needs to cover 100% of the page.
Is there an optimum size for an A4 background ? I know paper sizes are not measured in pixels, but does the PDF generation use a pre-set DPI that I can work from ? Anybody else have probs lining up a background image?
Bit stuck , I thought this would be the easy bit :-)
Thanks in advance,
Alastair

For those that are interested I've achieved my goal,
I gave up trying to decipher why small changes to Background images & Watermarks where having a large effect on the PDF output, so I've embedded the picture in the Word template and through trial and error lined them up.
Im still not happy that what I see in Word is not directly what I see in the PDF, I must have created 50+ previews using the left a bit, left a bit, down a bit , left a bit approach :-) But they now line up at least in the PDF output.
I'd be interested if anybody knows workarounds, the problem seems to be when you use picture wrapping properties of behind text or in front of text. I guess RTF doesn't support all the Word options (ie text boxes etc) so we are left with the trial and error approach.
Reminds me of the pain of working with Oracle reports trying to line things up :-) I think I'll stay over in OBIEE land

Can't get background images to display on page

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Serious performance issue with LV 7.1 Development Environment

I'm posting this issue to the forums prior to submitting a bug report to ensure that the problems I'm having are reproducible. To reproduce this bug, you're going to have to be an advanced user with a large project (hundreds to thousands of VIs) as the performance problem is related to the number of VIs loaded.
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These problems are quite severe and significantly decrease my productivity as a programmer. Since they are development environment UI issues, it's been difficult for me to find a good example VI; the best I can do is the attached "LV Speed Test.vi". It doesn't test the issues that affect me most, but it seems to suffer from the same problem.
This simple VI just shows and hides the menu bar 100 times in a tight for loop. When it is the only VI loaded, it executes in about 350 msec on my machine. (2.4 GHz P-IV/640 MB RAM/Win2k). However, when I load a single project-encompassing VI (let's call it the "giant") that references a total of about 900 user and VI-lib subVIs, the test routine takes almost a minute and half to run...about 240 times slower! I've tried this on my laptop with similar results.
The problem appears to be related to the *number* of VIs loaded and not the memory utilization. For example, if I close the "giant", and create a new VI ("memhog") that does nothing but initialize a length 20,000,000 array of doubles and stores it in an uninitialized shift register, LabView's overall memory usage (as shown in the task manager) jumps enormously, but LV Speed Test executes in about 450 msec...only slightly slower than with a fresh copy of Labview.
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The problem only seems to affect the frontmost window. (Unfortunately, that's where we LV programmers spend all of our time!) If you start "LV Speed Test" and then put "giant" in the foreground "LV Speed Test" runs much faster. In fact, if you use the VI server to put the "giant" VI in the foreground programmatically at the start of "LV Speed Test", execution time drops back to 450 msec, and there are no page faults!
These results show the issue is not related to video drivers or the Windows virtual memory system. My suspicion is that there is a faulty routine in LV 7.1 that is traversing the entire VI hierarchy every time certain events are thrown in the foreground window. It could be due to a problem with the Windows event tracking system, but this seems less likely.
I have been programming LV for about 7 years and switched from LV 6.1 to 7.1 about four months ago. I know NI engineers have put thousands of hours developing and testing LV 7.1, but honestly I find myself wishing I had never upgraded from using LV 6.1. (To whomever thought "hide trailing zeros" should be the default for floating point controls...what were you thinking?!)
I know each new version of LabView causes old-timers like me to grouse that things were better back in the days when we etched our block diagrams on stone tablets, etc., and honestly I'm not going to go back. I am committed to LabView 7.1. I just wish it were not so slow on my big projects!
Attachments:
LV_Speed_Test.vi ‏22 KB

Hi,
I can confirm this behavior. Setting the execution system to "user
interface" helps a bit, but there is still a big difference.
I get a feeling it has something to do with window messages, perhaps
WM_PAINT or something, that is handled differently if a VI is not
frontmost... But what do I know...
Don't know if it should be called a bug, but it sure is something that could
be optimized.
Regards,
Wiebe.
"Rob Calhoun" wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> I'm posting this issue to the forums prior to submitting a bug report
> to ensure that the problems I'm having are reproducible. To reproduce
> this bug, you're going to have to be an advanced user with a large
> project (hundreds to thousands of VIs) as the performance problem is
> related to the number of VIs loaded.
>
> The issue is the increasingly poor performance of the LabVIEW 7.1
> Development Environment as the number of VIs in memory increases. The
> actions affected include switching between front panel and diagram,
> saving a VI, copy and paste, clicking a menu, and the mysterious time
> spent (compiling? editing the runtime menu? changing the toolbar
> state?) between pressing the run button and when the code actually
> starts executing. Scrolling and, interestingly, copying via a
> control-drag are not affected. Running time of entirely on-diagram
> code does not seem to be affected.
>
> These problems are quite severe and significantly decrease my
> productivity as a programmer. Since they are development environment
> UI issues, it's been difficult for me to find a good example VI; the
> best I can do is the attached "LV Speed Test.vi". It doesn't test the
> issues that affect me most, but it seems to suffer from the same
> problem.
>
> This simple VI just shows and hides the menu bar 100 times in a tight
> for loop. When it is the only VI loaded, it executes in about 350 msec
> on my machine. (2.4 GHz P-IV/640 MB RAM/Win2k). However, when I load a
> single project-encompassing VI (let's call it the "giant") that
> references a total of about 900 user and VI-lib subVIs, the test
> routine takes almost a minute and half to run...about 240 times
> slower! I've tried this on my laptop with similar results.
>
> The problem appears to be related to the *number* of VIs loaded and
> not the memory utilization. For example, if I close the "giant", and
> create a new VI ("memhog") that does nothing but initialize a length
> 20,000,000 array of doubles and stores it in an uninitialized shift
> register, LabView's overall memory usage (as shown in the task
> manager) jumps enormously, but LV Speed Test executes in about 450
> msec...only slightly slower than with a fresh copy of Labview.
>
> The problem seems to be related to excessive context switching. The
> Windows task manager shows over a thirteen hundred page faults occur
> when "LV Speed Test" is run with the "giant" in the background, versus
> zero or none when run by itself or when "memhog" has used up 160+MB of
> space.
>
> The problem only seems to affect the frontmost window. (Unfortunately,
> that's where we LV programmers spend all of our time!) If you start
> "LV Speed Test" and then put "giant" in the foreground "LV Speed Test"
> runs much faster. In fact, if you use the VI server to put the "giant"
> VI in the foreground programmatically at the start of "LV Speed Test",
> execution time drops back to 450 msec, and there are no page faults!
>
> These results show the issue is not related to video drivers or the
> Windows virtual memory system. My suspicion is that there is a faulty
> routine in LV 7.1 that is traversing the entire VI hierarchy every
> time certain events are thrown in the foreground window. It could be
> due to a problem with the Windows event tracking system, but this
> seems less likely.
>
> I have been programming LV for about 7 years and switched from LV 6.1
> to 7.1 about four months ago. I know NI engineers have put thousands
> of hours developing and testing LV 7.1, but honestly I find myself
> wishing I had never upgraded from using LV 6.1. (To whomever thought
> "hide trailing zeros" should be the default for floating point
> controls...what were you thinking?!)
>
> I know each new version of LabView causes old-timers like me to grouse
> that things were better back in the days when we etched our block
> diagrams on stone tablets, etc., and honestly I'm not going to go
> back. I am committed to LabView 7.1. I just wish it were not so slow
> on my big projects!

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When I try to view Document - Header & Footer the program will draw the editing window and then has a fatal error which says "Acrobat 8.1 has encountered a problem and needs to close". There is the opportunity to send this info to Microsoft. This also happens when using the Document - Background or Watermark menus. All other parts of the program seem OK.
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This works! GS
Sexy Erudit - 3:54pm Mar 15, 08 PST (#3 of 6)
Hi Guys,
I had the same problems as the ones you stated above. Tried EVERYTHING ! lol Install / Uninstall with removal of all Adobe physically related files, cleaned the registry... To no avail.... Untill....
I found the solution !!!!
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Everything should be working well after that (I couldn't have access to "Preferences", "Optimize", "Reduce File Size" even "Search"). I now have a fully fonctional version.
Hope this post will help out !
Cheers !
SE

Adobe Acrobat Overlay PDF Help

Is it possible to overlay specific pages within a PDF document? For example, I have an Excel printout, which is then run through a printer again to print a report from access on the bottom of the same page. It appears that Acrobat 9 can do this using the Background feature, but it is difficult to control. Basically, I may have any number of pages, that may need different backgrounds within a whole document. The problem I run into is if i make a mistake and use the wrong background PDF, when i remove it, it removes every background I may have used in document. The goal is to streamline a yearly publication that includes pieces from word, excel, access, and visio. The current situation causes many pages to be fed through the printer as many as 3 times for reports and page numbers. At the end, I feed the whole paper version back though a copier to PDF it. Does Acrobat X expand on this feature or is there another Adobe Product I should be looking at to compile this publication. Thanks

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