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How to add Watermarks or Stamps to PDF?

Feb 5, 2020 · Conveniently add text or image watermarks to your documents like confidential letters, bank statements, invoices, or add a logo to your company documents.

We come across a lot of documents in our day to day life. There might be documents we want to protect from others copying or duplicating. Adding a Password may not always be a solution. We may want to add dates, validations, images or logos to documents. You may even wish to validate invoices as paid or documents as draft, copy, approved, confidential and so on. PDF4me gives you an easy way to add Watermarks to your documents. Add Watermarks or text stamps in simple steps to your PDF. You can always customize the alignment, rotation, size or color of the text and much more.

How to add Watermarks?

We have simplified the task of adding watermarks for you. With simple controls, you can add modify and configure your text stamps in PDF4me.

  • Select the Watermark tool from the Home Page
  • Drag & Drop or Upload the document you want to add the Watermark
  • You will have 2 options for watermarking
  • Text - Add text watermarks
  • Image - Add images or stamps, say _Logo of your company_

Options for Text Watermark

Font ~ Select from a list of most commonly used fonts. _Default option - Arial_

Bold, Italics and Underline ~ Available for text watermark

Text-color ~ Text color of your watermark

Text size ~ Increase or Decrease the size of your text

Text Rotation ~ Rotate text (Anti-clockwise only available)

Text Position ~ Configure the position of the text on your document. _Default option - center_.

Watermark position ~ You can set the watermark to be placed above the original content or beneath the original content. _Default option - Set to Foreground_

Opacity ~ Set the transparency of the text. _Default is 75% opacity_

Options for Image Watermark

Image size ~ Increase or Decrease the size of your image stamp

Image Position ~ Configure the position of the image on your document. _Default option - center_.

Watermark position ~ You can set the watermark to be placed above the original content or beneath the original content. _Default option - Set to Foreground

Opacity ~ Set the transparency of the Image. _Default is 75% opacity_

  • Choose the type of Watermark and Configure using the formatting options.
  • Choose if you want the Watermark on All pages, First page, or on Selected pages.
  • When all the configurations are completed. Click Start adding Watermark.

Once done, PDF4me will process your preferences and the final PDF will be available for download as a single file or in a Zip folder.

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