Watermark PDF

A watermark says what a document is before anybody reads a word of it. A draft watermark stops a version being quoted back at you as final — add draft watermark to pdf pages and nobody can mistake it for the signed copy. CONFIDENTIAL sets an expectation before the first page is turned. A client's name on every page of a proposal makes it awkward to forward, which is often the whole intent. To add watermark to pdf pages, drop the file in and type the word: this will stamp pdf pages with it and give you the file back. Diagonally across the middle, centred, or as a quiet line in the footer — and you choose how faint it is, because a watermark that obscures the text it is protecting has defeated itself. The document stays a document. The pages are not flattened into pictures, so the text is still selectable, the links still work, and the file stays roughly the size it was. That is worth saying because it is the difference between this and most free watermark tools, which quietly turn every page into an image and hand back something four times larger that nobody can search. And one thing it is not. A watermark is a mark, not a lock. Anybody with the right software can take it off again, and no tool that adds one can change that. It tells an honest reader what they are holding; it does not stop a dishonest one. If the content itself must not be read, the answer is a password or not sending the file — not a diagonal word. It runs in your browser, so the PDF never reaches us. For a contract or an unreleased proposal that is not a small detail: the document you are marking confidential is precisely the one you should not be uploading to a website to have a word written on it.