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[Margaret Bartley]

Is there anything the will open any file that WinXP recognizes, and allow me
to paste an image over part of it?

I'm working with a law firm, and they have to put a page number on every
document they receive. The page numbers continue from one document to
another.

If they have a 2-page Word document, an Excel spreadsheet, an email message,
and another 4-page document, then the last page of the second Word document
should be 8.

Right now, they are printing out thousands of pages, and sticking a label on
each page!

I'm appalled. Surely, in this day of computers, there must be some way to
grab a graphic image of each document, and put on those page numbers
automatically.

I'm hesitant about opening up Word documents, and adding or changing the
footers, becuase it may change the pagination, and then the documents won't
look the same. Besides, that won't help the other types of files.

Any hints?

 

[Uncle Grumpy]

Is there anything the will open any file that WinXP recognizes, and allow me
to paste an image over part of it?

No.

And only a moron would expect such a file.

 

[Uncle Grumpy]

Is there anything the will open any file that WinXP recognizes, and allow me
to paste an image over part of it?

BTW... I hope you didn't post this stupid question using your real
name an email address.

 

[cornedbeef007-groups]

Is there anything the will open any file that WinXP recognizes, and allow me
to paste an image over part of it?

I'm working with a law firm, and they have to put a page number on every
document they receive. The page numbers continue from one document to
another.

If they have a 2-page Word document, an Excel spreadsheet, an email message,
and another 4-page document, then the last page of the second Word document
should be 8.

Right now, they are printing out thousands of pages, and sticking a label on
each page!

I'm appalled.  Surely, in this day of computers, there must be some way to
grab a graphic image of each document, and put on those page numbers
automatically.

I'm hesitant about opening up Word documents, and adding or changing the
footers, becuase it may change the pagination, and then the documents won't
look the same.  Besides, that won't help the other types of files.

Any hints?

Ignore Uncle Grumpy.
He doesn't know the answer to your question so he resorts to calling
you names. He's forgotten to take his medication....again!

All I could suggest would be pasting each file into one new document,
which adds the page number you require.

Good Luck.

 

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[VanguardLH]

Is there anything the will open any file that WinXP recognizes,

The OS doesn't "recognize" filetypes. A handler application renders
the image.

and allow me to paste an image over part of it?

What is "it"?

I'm working with a law firm, and they have to put a page number on
every document they receive. The page numbers continue from one
document to another.

If they have a 2-page Word document, an Excel spreadsheet, an email
message, and another 4-page document, then the last page of the
second Word document should be 8.

They decided to physically staple together documents that were
generating by separate programs.

Right now, they are printing out thousands of pages, and sticking a
label on each page!

So why not create a Word doc that merges the original 2-page .doc
file, the .xls spreadsheat on page 3, the contents of the e-mail on
page 4, and then the 4-page .doc file? You might get the page
numbering that you expect on the physical printouts (except that the
spreadsheet and e-mail could end up being more than 1 page in length).

I'm appalled. Surely, in this day of computers, there must be some
way to grab a graphic image of each document, and put on those page
numbers automatically.

And how would a graphical representation of a document (which would
have to show ALL of the doc and not just what you captured on the
screen) even have page numbers? It would still be an image. Maybe
you could use PDFConverter, CutePDF, or other PDF-printer to print
each document which would go into the same .pdf file but that doesn't
mean the page numbers would match on the physical document count but
rather on the page size defined for the .pdf file. The problem is
that you would have to open each document and perform a print
operation but each program is going to do its own separate print so
you end up with separate .pdf files. You might want to Google on
"+merge +PDF files". I know when scanning docs that I can append them
into a single PDF file so that is another option if you have a scanner
(and most come with some scanning software).

I'm hesitant about opening up Word documents, and adding or changing
the footers, becuase it may change the pagination, and then the
documents won't look the same. Besides, that won't help the other
types of files.

Despite the ability to print each doc to a .pdf file and then merge
them, or to scan a hardcopy of each while "printing" into a single
..pdf file, it is likely that a law firm MUST retain a physical copy of
the documents - and of the originals, too. So you would end up having
to staple, folder, or otherwise collate the originals and then print
out the merged PDF file which gives you nothing more than the
originals provided.

 

[AlmostBob]

This is something that Word already does

View
Headers & footers
Set footer auto text Number x of y

Import source documents
all pages numbered in sequence

On the web PHP will number pages, add watermarks to images



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[VanguardLH]

The OS doesn't "recognize" filetypes. A handler application renders
the image.


What is "it"?


They decided to physically staple together documents that were
generating by separate programs.


So why not create a Word doc that merges the original 2-page .doc
file, the .xls spreadsheat on page 3, the contents of the e-mail on
page 4, and then the 4-page .doc file? You might get the page
numbering that you expect on the physical printouts (except that the
spreadsheet and e-mail could end up being more than 1 page in
length).


And how would a graphical representation of a document (which would
have to show ALL of the doc and not just what you captured on the
screen) even have page numbers? It would still be an image. Maybe
you could use PDFConverter, CutePDF, or other PDF-printer to print
each document which would go into the same .pdf file but that
doesn't mean the page numbers would match on the physical document
count but rather on the page size defined for the .pdf file. The
problem is that you would have to open each document and perform a
print operation but each program is going to do its own separate
print so you end up with separate .pdf files. You might want to
Google on "+merge +PDF files". I know when scanning docs that I can
append them into a single PDF file so that is another option if you
have a scanner (and most come with some scanning software).


Despite the ability to print each doc to a .pdf file and then merge
them, or to scan a hardcopy of each while "printing" into a single
.pdf file, it is likely that a law firm MUST retain a physical copy
of the documents - and of the originals, too. So you would end up
having to staple, folder, or otherwise collate the originals and
then print out the merged PDF file which gives you nothing more than
the originals provided.

After installing PDFCreator (to give you a print option to create .pdf
files), you can use PDFill free tools (do a search at www.download.com
on "pdfill") to splice them together. These are free tools.
PDFCreator includes Ghostscript (used to translate printer output into
PDF output) but I prefer to install it separately (find it at
sourceforge.net, along with PDFCreator). So the install sequence is:
Ghostscript 8.61, PDFCreator 0.9.5 (which might require a reboot to
see the new printer), and then PDFill Free Tools. Since the process
starts with you printing the doc to a PDF file, you will have to open
those docs.

 

[Lem]

Is there anything the will open any file that WinXP recognizes, and allow me
to paste an image over part of it?

I'm working with a law firm, and they have to put a page number on every
document they receive. The page numbers continue from one document to
another.

If they have a 2-page Word document, an Excel spreadsheet, an email message,
and another 4-page document, then the last page of the second Word document
should be 8.

Right now, they are printing out thousands of pages, and sticking a label on
each page!

I'm appalled. Surely, in this day of computers, there must be some way to
grab a graphic image of each document, and put on those page numbers
automatically.

I'm hesitant about opening up Word documents, and adding or changing the
footers, becuase it may change the pagination, and then the documents won't
look the same. Besides, that won't help the other types of files.

Any hints?

Numbering documents in the context of litigation production is very
common. There are any number of vendors that do this. For example, see
http://commercephotoprint.com/services.nxg

You might also want to take a look at
http://www.dminfo.com/faqs.html#nativereview

If you are just using native applications (Word, Excel, etc.) to print
out the documents and physically number them, be aware of the metadata.
If the law firm you're working with thinks that having someone with no
electronic discovery experience do its document production will save it
money, it may be in for a rude awakening.

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http://history.nasa.gov/afj/compessay.htm

 

[HeyBub]

Is there anything the will open any file that WinXP recognizes, and
allow me to paste an image over part of it?

I'm working with a law firm, and they have to put a page number on
every document they receive. The page numbers continue from one
document to another.

If they have a 2-page Word document, an Excel spreadsheet, an email
message, and another 4-page document, then the last page of the
second Word document should be 8.

Right now, they are printing out thousands of pages, and sticking a
label on each page!

I'm appalled. Surely, in this day of computers, there must be some
way to grab a graphic image of each document, and put on those page
numbers automatically.

I'm hesitant about opening up Word documents, and adding or changing
the footers, becuase it may change the pagination, and then the
documents won't look the same. Besides, that won't help the other
types of files.
Any hints?

Look for "printer overlays," of which there are several models and
techniques. One tactic is to intercept the printing, overlay something (like
a letterhead), and pass it on to the printer. Another tactic is to gather
all of the printing for one job, then insert the requested overlay.

One more method: The overlay itself can be downloaded to the printer and
appears on all subsequent pages until removed or refreshed.

 

[Margaret Bartley]

I like that, except that it's important that the orginal pagination and
headers and footers stay intact.

If a witness writes a one-page report, and she is handed a two-page report,
and asked if this hers, she's going to have to hesitate, and carefully
review every word, to make sure it hasn't changed, because it will not look
the same.

 

[Richard in AZ]

To mis-quote your initial inquiry, "I am appalled that the legal profession has not come into the
modern times"
If you insist on combining separate documents into a single file with sequential page numbers, you
can't expect computers to fix this system. You could buy a multi-sheet scanner and scan all sheets
into a single document file. Then apply page numbers. Of course each page would only be a graphic
image of the original and not editable.

 

[Bob I]

What you want is a document scanner and software like Adobe Acrobat. You
scan the docs to an image file and then process the file and "insert"
the "footer" or header. It has nothing to do with Windows XP, other than
the software needs to be installed. If the document is NOT paper, but an
actual file, then you use the "Print to PDF" feature, and then process
it the same as you did with the scanned document. As far as being
"appalled", I suggest you do a little research, and then that will
change to "amazed".