Watermark PDF

Add a watermark to a PDF

Set the words, the angle and how faint you want them, and Quill sizes the stamp to the page and lays it across every sheet you choose. It blends with the page rather than blocking it, so the document underneath stays readable.

How to add a watermark to a pdf

  1. 1

    Open the document

    Load the PDF you need to mark. Watermarking sits in the document tools panel.

  2. 2

    Write the text

    CONFIDENTIAL is the starting point; replace it with DRAFT, a client name, a date or anything else. Font, weight and italics are all selectable.

  3. 3

    Tune the look

    Set the rotation, the opacity, the colour and how much of the page width the text should span. It is scaled to fit each page rather than to a fixed point size.

  4. 4

    Choose pages and apply

    Stamp the whole document or just a range, then export.

It multiplies rather than covers

The stamp is composited in Multiply mode, so it darkens the page instead of painting over it. Text under the watermark stays legible — the usual failure of a flat overlay at anything above minimal opacity.

Scaled to the page, not to a font size

You choose what fraction of the page width the text should occupy and the font size is derived from the actual measured width of your string. A short word and a long sentence both land proportioned correctly, on A4 and on US Letter.

Watermarks are elements, not a bake

Each stamp is a normal element on the page, so it can be selected, nudged, restyled or deleted before you export. Getting it wrong is not a reason to start again.

Questions

No. The only watermark in the exported file is the one you asked for.

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