The purpose of this form just to turn this PDF document into a fillable form. Now we are going to place a hidden text field on the PDF form. The form editor in the Adobe® Acrobat® is used only to add fillable form fields to allow using the document in the mail merge process. It is common to design documents in the regular text editors such as the Microsoft Word, the Adobe InDesign, or in any other similar application and then export it into PDF format. Select an existing PDF file that will be as used as a base for the PDF form. Select the "Prepare Form" tool to open a form editor. Select the "Tools" from the main toolbar. Once the PDF document has fillable fields, then it can be run through the mail merge process and personalized with the custom watermarks. Step 1 - Create a PDF Form Template The first step is to turn the PDF document we want to distribute into a fillable PDF form. You can download trial versions of both the Adobe® Acrobat® and the AutoMailMerge™. Prerequisites You need a copy of the Adobe® Acrobat® along with the AutoMailMerge™ plug-in installed on your computer in order to use this tutorial.
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See the tutorial how to automatically e-mail generated PDF documents. The "E-mail" column contains e-mail addresses and could be used to e-mail watermarked PDF documents to the corresponding recipients. The data from the "First name" and the "Last name" columns will be used to add watermarks into a PDF form template. Data Description The tutorial is using a PDF document that contains 3 pages and an Excel spreadsheet with 5 fields (columns): "Record", First name", "Middle name", "Last name" and "E-mail". The resulting PDF documents are individually named using data from the spreadsheet. Each row of the spreadsheet contains data for watermarking a single PDF document. The watermarking data is stored in the Excel spreadsheet. Watermark text includes a custom text along with first and last name: Issued for (for example: "Issued for Emily Roberts" and etc.). Tutorial Overview The tutorial explains how to watermark copies of the same PDF document with a custom text and individual recipient name. The watermarking is performed as a part of the mail merge process andĬreates watermarks that are different for each output PDF document. The AutoMailMerge plug-in allows adding the custom watermarks to PDF documentsīy using data from a spreadsheet or a database. Some other identifying information before distributing it among a group of recipients. Often necessary to personalized each copy of the same PDF document with the recipient's name or Personalizing PDF Documents with Watermarks Introduction The tutorial shows how to personalize PDF documents by watermarking pages with recipients' names.