Preview - add an image to a PDF file

Dec 16, '10 07:30:00AM

Contributed by: Anonymous

I wanted to add a logo PNG image on a document I had in PDF. It is fairly simple to do this in Preview:

Convert the PDF document to an image with File » Save As.... Choose PNG as the format and change the resolution as desired.
Open the image file and select the whole image with Edit » Select All (or select just a part of it with the mouse if you wish).
Copy the selection Edit » Copy.
Go back to the document (which is now a PNG image) and paste the selection with Edit » Paste and resize it as you wish.
Save the file as a PDF with File » Save As.... Choose PDF as the format (and rename it if the original PDF needs to be preserved).

Note that a PDF made from an image is not searchable, so that is a drawback to this procedure.

[crarko adds: I tested this, and it works as described. The original article included with the submission is here.]

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