A watermark is text or an image that appears either in front of or behind existing document content, like a stamp. For example, you could apply a “Confidential” watermark to pages with sensitive information. You can add multiple watermarks to one or more PDFs, but you must add each watermark separately. You can specify the page or range of pages on which each watermark appears.
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Unlikea stamp, a watermark is integrated into PDF pages as a fixed element.A stamp is a type of PDF comment, which others reading the PDF canopen to display a text annotation, move, change, or delete.
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Open the PDF to which you want to add a watermark.
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Select the Edit mega verb from the global bar and selectWatermark > Add.
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(Optional) To apply the watermark selectively to individual pages, select Page Range Options in the Add Watermark dialog box. Then specify a page range and choose a Subset option, as needed.
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Specify the watermark:
To reuse a watermark and watermark options that you saved in an earlier session, select it from the Saved Settings menu.
To create a text watermark, select Text, and type the text in the box. Adjust the text formatting options as needed.
To use an image as a watermark, select File. Then click Browse and select the image file. If the file has multiple pages with images, specify the Page Number you want.
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Only PDF, JPEG, and BMP images can be used as watermarks.
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To change the size of an image watermark, do one of thefollowing:
To resize the watermark in relation to the original image file size, enter a percentage in the Absolute Scale option (in the Source area of the dialog box).
To resize the watermark in relation to the PDF page dimensions, enter a percentage in the Scale relative to target page (in the Appearance area of the dialog box).
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Adjust the appearance and position of the watermark,as needed.
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(Optional) Select Appearance Options and specify the following options:
To specify when the watermark appears, select or deselect Show when printing and Show when displaying on screen.
To control variations in a PDF with pages of varying sizes, select or deselect Keep position and size of watermark text constant when printing on different page sizes.
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(Optional) To apply the same settings to additional PDFs, select Apply to Multiple Files. Select Add Files, choose Add Files or Add Open Files, and then select the files. Then in the Output Options dialog box, specify your folder and filename preferences, and select OK.
Add or replace a watermark in componentPDFs in a PDF Portfolio
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Select one or more component PDFs ina PDF Portfolio.
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Follow the steps mentioned in the previous section Add a watermark to a PDF.
Update a watermark
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Open the PDF in which you want to update the watermark.
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Select the Edit mega verb from the global bar and selectWatermark > Update.
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Make changes to the watermark, and then select OK.
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If you've multiple watermarks in a PDF, this procedure will update only the first watermark you added and discards all other watermarks.
Remove watermarks
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Doone of the following:
Open a single PDF, or select one or more component PDFs in a PDF Portfolio. Then choose Edit > Watermark > Remove.
To remove watermarks from multiple PDFs, close any open PDFs and choose Alltools > Edit a PDF > Watermark > Remove. In the dialog box that appears, select Add files, choose Add Files, and then select the files. Select OK, and then in the Output Options dialog box, specify your folder and filename preferences.
