The following could be useful for some people too: SPECIMEN
Thanks for the suggestions!
What colors do you have in mind for CONFIDENTIAL
and SPECIMEN
?
I think EXAMPLE
would be nicest with same gray as DRAFT
, which means this formula might be sufficient:
DraftPDFs(Files, text: "EXAMPLE")
Why don’t you generalize it to WatermarkPDFs()
with the color as a parameter? The colors could be presets or just allow hex values.
Because that’d require a lot of manual parameter input to achieve one of the common use-cases, I want it to be as simple as possible for the users
Color is already a parameter though, the default value changes based on the formula
Ah, it’s already fully customisable, that’s great!
Then all these other formulas don’t add anything else rather than changing the default values, right?
In my opinion having so many formulas doing basically the same is more confusing than having a generic one. You could demonstrate the use of the formula in the showcase doc. But that’s just me!
Yep that’s correct!
I thought a lot about the different solutions, neither of which seem ideal
I almost went for a general formula like you said, but with an additional preset
parameter which would affect the rest of the parameters, but that just seemed too messy
The biggest hurdle for the solution I chose was maintainability, which I solved with some nice high level functions in the pack code
textoverlay("Void", "red", 220, 0, 0);
textoverlay("Paid", "green", 0, 220, 0);
textoverlay("Draft", "gray", 100, 100, 100);
Hey @Rickard_Abraham ,
For SPECIMEN I think orange would do nicely (but I don’t have very strong feelings about it, so anything else would work too).
Greetings, Joost
Added more text overlay presets!
Thanks @Christiaan_Huizer and @joost_mineur
- ExamplePDFs()
- ConfidentialPDFs()
- SpecimenPDFs()
Hi Rickard!
I was wondering if it was possible to generate a pdf based on a word doc using your pack? I’m thinking maybe I could use a combination of this pack and the Export to Word Pro Pack, to generate PDFS using table data.
Thanks!
Hey Samuel!
I’m afraid not, I have some PDF generation in the works but not for word documents
Word documents are especially tricky though because they’ve done everything they can to prevent reading it programmatically unless you pay a billion dollar (almost) license fee IIRC
New Field Formulas!
- ReadPDFsFields():
See all editable fields in your PDF(s) as JSON.
- WritePDFsFields():
Fill fields in your PDF(s), optionally lock further edits.
Works for text fields, checkboxes and dropdowns!
Got it. I found another solution. Thanks so much!