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Add clip art to PDF

With the Clip Art tool it's easy to add graphics and images to any page in your PDF documents, without the need to go back to your source document. Nitro PDF Professional makes it simple to quickly insert and position graphics, logos and pictures. You can even turn images and objects from existing PDFs into Clip Art and reuse them in other PDF documents. (Also see the PDF editing feature overview for related information.)

File types that can be automatically converted then inserted as clip art include:

  1. Images. BMP, TIFF, GIF, JPEG, JPEG2000, Photoshop, PNG, etc.
  2. Documents. PDF, Word, Excel®, PowerPoint®, Visio®, HTML and rich text files.

To create a clip art file:

  1. Choose Edit > Clip Art > Create Custom Clip Art, or click the arrow to the right of the Clip Art   toolbar button and select Create Custom Clip Art.
  2. In the Create Custom Clip Art dialog, click the browse button and choose the file you want to be a watermark.
  3. Specify the group it should be added to. If there are not groups added, name one.
  4. Specify the name of the clip art.

Tip: Objects, including clip art can be rearranged so they are in front of or behind other page content. To rearrange when the clip art tool is selected, right-click on the object you want to rearrange and choose whether to bring the object to the front or to send it to the back.

To add or insert clip art to a PDF document:

  1. Choose Edit > Clip Art > Show Clip Art, or select the Clip Art  toolbar button.
  2. In the Clip Art palette, to insert the clip art into the PDF, do one of the following:
    • Double-click on the clip art.
    • Drag and drop the clip on to the page.
    • Right-click and select Insert.
  3. To adjust the layout and size of the clip art, do any of the following:
    • To change position on the page, right-click on the clip art and drag the object into position.
    • To resize the clip art, grab any corner or side of the object and drag.
    • To rotate the clip art, grab the pointer above the clip art and turn the object clockwise or counterclockwise.
    • Click the browse button and choose the file you want to be a watermark.

Tip: In some cases vector based graphics will appear in PDF documents to be comprised of numerous small objects, making it difficult to modify them easily. You can group (or ungroup) objects on the page by selecting them, right clicking and selecting whether to group or ungroup them.

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