Can't see Acrobat Background behind Pages PDF?

I am trying to apply a background in Acrobat 6 to a pdf printed from Pages 2.0.1 and I can't see it. If I apply the same thing as a watermark, it works fine.
If I export to Word and print to PDF from there, I can add the background just as I want.
It appears that Pages exports a solid white backgound that hides the Acrobat background. The background I want to apply is my letterhead. I never know when I start a document if I will print it on real printed paper letterhead or if I will need to send it via email. So I want to be able to use a single template file with a transparent back so I can apply my letterhead to it. By the way, my letterhead contains a "watermark" image in the middle of the page, so putting it on as a watermark in Acrobat does not work for me
Does anyone know how to print a PDF from Pages (either via Print to PDF or via Distiller) that I can then apply my letterhead to in Acrobat?
Thanks,
Pat
Powerbook 17 inch   Mac OS X (10.4.6)  

Welcome to Pages discussions:
All seems the long way round, to me. Doubtless there'll be other users who can help you navigate cross-app complexities. I just use Pages, and don't.
But have you tried to make a background of your letterhead and watermark in Pages? Set up a text box to hold them, leave just enough margin to manipulate the text box, leaving the marginless printing option in the print dialogue to bleed it out later. Make the object "fixed on page" and deselect "object causes wrap" in the object inspector, then send it back - or even to the back from the "arrange" menu. Make it a master object if you want it on every page, and layer whatever else you want over it. If you just want to send an overlaying text, then select that and paste it into whatever application you want to send it from. Do the background in Pages first, that is to say, and then make your PDF or whatever you need from that.
Type "watermarks" (for example) in the online help search for details.
Of course there could well be something about Acrobat that I don't know, that could prevent your importing its product into Pages to use in this way. I'll have to leave that for others to solve if it's a problem. But please be aware that Pages does have comprehensive layering and "alpha object" transparency control in its own right via the object inspector: it doesn't need Acrobat to support that. The question is, can you get at the source of your Acrobat material, and can you get that into Pages? If you can, you can manipulate it.
Should my suggestion prove constructive, its gist is to consider Pages as a source of overlayed layout, not simply as a vehicle for other versions of it.
Cheers.
iBook G4   Mac OS X (10.4.7)  

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