I have a 49 page PDF which has an image in the top right corner where I wish to overwrite that image with a second image. I can do this using Merge and a 2nd PDF containing just the new image in the top right corner and treating this 2nd PDF as a stamp. It works OK, but when I scroll quickly through the resulting new PDF every so often the *original* image appears briefly. If I scroll through the whole new PDF the old image flickers up about 5 times. I can get round this by creating a hi-res TIF file (using Merge and the 2nd PDF, but outputting to a TIF file rather than to a new PDF file) and then creating the final PDF from that TIF file, but it is a bit of a palaver and the person who will be doing this will get in a muddle doing this. Is there any way of "flattening" a PDF directly and not having to go via an intermediate TIF file?
To sum up.
Flickering result: (Original PDF with old image) merged with (2nd PDF with desired image) using 2nd PDF as a stamp ---> Final PDF
Non-flickering, but more complicated: (Original PDF with old image) merged with (2nd PDF with desired image) using 2nd PDF as a stamp ---> TIF then print using Bullzip to Final PDF
I'm currently using version 10.1.0.1871, but could update to 11.6.0.2714 if I need to. If I can get to create a non-flickering final PDF in one step, I intend to automate it using VBA, but would be very happy to do this manually and get the customer going manually (using one step).
Many thanks,
Alan Cossey
Stamp doesn't always hide the image below
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