Add watermarks to documents - automatically and professionally

Step-by-step instructions for automatically adding watermarks

Watermarks clearly mark documents as confidential, as drafts, or with your company logo. With Automatic PDF Processor, you automatically add watermarks to your PDF documents.

Typical use cases

  • CONFIDENTIAL: Mark sensitive documents before sharing
  • DRAFT: Mark preliminary document versions
  • COPY: Distinguish between originals and copies
  • Company logo: Branding of outgoing documents
  • Date stamp: Timestamp for print date

Step 1: Create a new profile

Create a new profile with a descriptive name such as "Add watermark". Set up the monitored folder.

Create profile for watermark

Step 2: Activate the "Stamp/Watermark" task

Go to the task view and select the "Stamp/Watermark" task. Select the type "Watermark".

Stamp/Watermark task

Step 3: Configure watermark text

Enter the desired text for the watermark:

Setting Description Example
Text The text to display "CONFIDENTIAL", "DRAFT", "COPY"
Font The font to use Arial, Times New Roman
Font size Size in points 72 pt (large), 36 pt (medium)
Color Text color (RGB) Light gray (200,200,200), Red (255,0,0)
Opacity Transparency of watermark 30% (subtle), 50% (visible)
Rotation Angle in degrees -45° (diagonal), 0° (horizontal)

Step 4: Set position

Choose how the watermark should be positioned:

  • Centered: One watermark centered on each page
  • Tiled: Watermark is repeated across the entire page

With the tiled option, you can set the horizontal and vertical spacing between the repetitions.

Watermark settings

Step 5: Select pages

Specify which pages the watermark should appear on:

  • All pages: Watermark on every page
  • First page: Only on the first page
  • Last page: Only on the last page
  • Page range: Specific pages (e.g., 1-3, 5)
Page selection for watermark

Step 6: Choose embedding mode

Choose how the watermark should be embedded:

  • As annotation: The watermark remains as a separate layer and can be removed later
  • Flattened: The watermark is permanently integrated into the document and cannot be removed

Recommendation: Choose "Flattened" for documents where the watermark should remain permanently visible.

Choose embedding mode

Result

After configuration, all documents placed in the monitored folder are automatically provided with the configured watermark.


Tips & notes

  • Subtle but visible: A watermark should be clearly recognizable but not cover the content. Use an opacity of 20-40%.
  • Contrast: Choose a color that stands out from the document background but is not too intrusive.
  • Placeholders: You can also use placeholders in the text, e.g., "<TodaysDate>" for the current date.

Other step-by-step instructions

Getting Started

Basic Tasks

PDF Editing

E-Invoicing & Archiving

Practical Examples


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