Pdf expert needed - Insert current date in header

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bonnieblue

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good morning everyone...i have a little problem and am desperately seeking a solution.

i want to have the current date populate on each page of a document in PDF. i know how to do it in word. i can get it to work in PDF but only by inserting the date on every page...which is a bit cumbersome.

the date insert option in acrobat pro 7.0 only gives the dates in numbers and i need the month to be written in letters (e.g. 12-Aug-2009).

anyone fixed this before?
 
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good morning everyone...i have a little problem and am desperately seeking a solution.

i want to have the current date populate on each page of a document in PDF. i know how to do it in word. i can get it to work in PDF but only by inserting the date on every page...which is a bit cumbersome.

the date insert option in acrobat pro 7.0 only gives the dates in numbers and i need the month to be written in letters (e.g. 12-Aug-2009).

anyone fixed this before?
Check http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Acrobat/9.0/Professional/WS58a04a822e3e50102bd615109794195ff-7ed4.w.html

I don't think you can have the month by name with Acrobat, just numbers.
 
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jkitzy - 2009

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Best way to do this is not as a header, but in a textfield that you then make read only. Add this text to the calculation event javascript:
event.value = util.printd("dd-mmm-yyyy", new Date());
Next, make the field read-only. Then, if you need it on each page, duplicate the field on all pages.

That will always make that field "today's" date, so if you need a different date in there, well, that's a little more complex.

Attached is a quick walk-through. Hope it helps. My screen prints are from Acrobat 8 Pro, but the concept is the same.

-jak
 

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machrk

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good morning everyone...i have a little problem and am desperately seeking a solution.

i want to have the current date populate on each page of a document in PDF. i know how to do it in word. i can get it to work in PDF but only by inserting the date on every page...which is a bit cumbersome.

the date insert option in acrobat pro 7.0 only gives the dates in numbers and i need the month to be written in letters (e.g. 12-Aug-2009).

anyone fixed this before?
we had this problem - needed either Adobe Version 5 or Version 9 to insert script to fix

will check next week when back at work as to how how folks fixed prob

machrk
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Hi bonnieblue,
Try this link: http://www.uwec.edu/help/Acrobat7/for-date.htm,
its about inserting an automatic date field.
Hope this helps.
best regards,
raffy:cool:

good morning everyone...i have a little problem and am desperately seeking a solution.

i want to have the current date populate on each page of a document in PDF. i know how to do it in word. i can get it to work in PDF but only by inserting the date on every page...which is a bit cumbersome.

the date insert option in acrobat pro 7.0 only gives the dates in numbers and i need the month to be written in letters (e.g. 12-Aug-2009).

anyone fixed this before?
 
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