Current Date in PDF

Help - I am converting a Word file to PDF. I need the PDF (without being a form) to include a date that updates to the current date each time the file is opened. Can anyone help me?

It's OK, I'll explain it. So here's what you do:
- Create a new Text Comment on the first page in the location where you want the date to appear and select it using the Object Select tool under Tools - Interactive Objects.
- Open the JS Console by pressing Ctrl+J.
- Enter the following code into the console window, select it with the mouse and press Ctrl+Enter:
this.selectedAnnots[0].name = "DateAnnot";
this.selectedAnnots[0].readOnly = true;
this.selectedAnnots[0].lock = true;
- Go to Tools - JavaScripts - Document JavaScripts.
- Create a new item, let's call it "scripts".
- Delete the default code that is generated and paste this code instead into the window:
this.getAnnot(0, "DateAnnot").contents = util.printd("mm/dd/yyyy", new Date());
Feel free to adjust the date pattern string, as you see fit.
- Click OK, Close, and then save the file. Each time you open it from now on the text comment will contain the current date.

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First, Reader can not add form form fields or water mark by JavaScirpt. This means one can not add a watermark reliably before printing, so one needs to use a form field, and that form field needs to exist before the PDF is opened by Reader. You need to add a 'read only' form field to each page of the PDF and if you give them all the same name, you only need to change the value of one of the form fields. There is no way to add a footer by JavaScript.
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Is possible to insert an image (company logotype) and a text (title and date) in PDF generate through Printed Version functionality? The generated PDF only contains result table of the report.
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Q1) Is possible to insert an image (company logotype) and a text (title and date) in PDF generate through Printed Version functionality? The generated PDF only contains result table of the report??
A)In PDF Print Properties you should be able enter "Title and Date" and also When you define command sequence make sure to call "Analaysis Item only" otherwise the whole template will be downloaded to PDF. Please play with the properties when defining Command Sequence.
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This doesn't seem like it should be hard, but I have been unable to find information on how to do it.
I have about 100 PDF files. Somewhere on them, I need to display "Date Printed: dd mmm yyyy", and have the current date displayed.
I don't care whether this is placed at the top of the page, the bottom, or opaque in the background.
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The problem has been solved!!!
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Thank you for your response.
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