Watermark PDF

Add a watermark to a PDF to mark it confidential or draft

Sending out a draft contract, an internal report, or a proposal before it is final often calls for a visible label on every page, something a reader cannot miss or crop out. Watermark PDF stamps your own text diagonally over each page so status is clear at a glance.

The text defaults to the word confidential, but you can type anything: a company name, a draft date, or a do not distribute notice. You pick the font from a short list, set the size, choose a color, and decide whether it should be bold or italic. Opacity starts around thirty percent so the mark sits behind readable text instead of blocking it, and rotation defaults to a forty five degree diagonal, though any angle works.

Smaller files are watermarked in your browser, while larger or complex PDFs go over a secure connection to the servers and are removed within the hour.

• Keep opacity low if the page has dense text, so the mark stays visible without making the content hard to read.
• Pick a color that contrasts with your page background, since a pale mark on a pale page can end up nearly invisible.
• Remember this is a visual label, not a security control, so pair it with Redact PDF if you need to remove sensitive text rather than just label the page.