How to Add a Watermark to a PDF to Protect Your Work
Why freelancers, photographers and legal teams stamp drafts before sharing them, and how to do it without ruining readability.
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A PDF watermark tool stamps custom text diagonally across every page of a document, at an adjustable size and transparency, without permanently altering the underlying content beneath it. The result is a document that visibly carries a label — "DRAFT," "CONFIDENTIAL," a company name — on every single page, in a way that is difficult to simply crop or edit out.
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