A watermark is text or an image printed behind document text.
Watermarks are transparent, so the text that is in front of
watermarks is visible. Some of the most commonly used are “Draft”
or “Paid”. Other examples are a logo printed lightly behind a
letter or the word "Confidential" printed lightly on a
contract.
With Smart PDF Converter, you can select text or an image as a
watermark. You can set the level of transparency, an angle of
rotation, scale and the exact position of a watermark. You can set
a watermark to appear on every page of a document or only on
selected pages, to be visible only in print or only on your
computer display, and to be on top or behind the text. You can also
apply a watermark to multiple documents at once.
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Click Insert Watermarks on the Tools tab. A
new window will open. Click Browse to select the PDF file
you want to insert watermarks into.
- Inserting Text Watermarks
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To insert a text watermark, select the Text check box and
type some text in the box. You’ll see a preview in the built-in PDF
viewer.
Click Font to select font, size and color for your text
watermark.
Click Save As to save the PDF document with a
watermark.
- Inserting Image Watermarks
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To insert an image watermark, select the Image
from file checkbox. Next click the … button which is
next to it to select an image file. You’ll see a preview in the
built-in PDF viewer.
Click Save As to save the PDF document with a
watermark.
- Setting level of transparency
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To make your watermark more opaque or more transparent, just
drag the Opacity slider. You’ll see a preview in the
built-in PDF viewer.
- Setting Watermark’s Position
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To move a watermark horizontally, change the number in the
Pos X box. You can type the new position or use the
small triangle buttons to adjust it.
To move a watermark vertically, change the number in the
Pos Y box. You can type the new position or use the
small triangle buttons to adjust it.
By default, these positions are measured from the left and from
the bottom of the page, but you can change this using the
From drop down list. The horizontal position Pos
X can be measured from Left, Center and Right. The vertical
position Pos Y can be measured from Bottom, Center
and Top.
Selecting the Relative check box will switch to a mode
that treats Pos X and Pos Y values as
percentages of the page size. For instance, Pos X
= 50 means half the page width.
- Rotating a Watermark
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To rotate a watermark, set the rotation angle in degrees in the
Rotation box.
0° means the watermark is not rotated at all.
90° means the watermark is rotated to the left.
180° means the watermark is rotated bottom up.
270° means the watermark is rotated to the right.
You can enter any other number between 0° and 360°.
- Scaling a Watermark
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To scale a watermark, change the number in the Scale box.
To make the watermark bigger, just increase the number. To make the
watermark smaller, just decrease the number.
- Specifying the pages on which a watermark appears
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Select Appear on all pages check box
to have the watermark on every page of the PDF document.
If you want to have a watermark on selected pages only, select
Appear in Pages check box and enter a page
range in the box. For example entering 1, 3, 10-13 will insert
watermarks on pages 1, 3, 10, 11, 12 and 13.
If you need the watermark on odd pages only, set the
Subset drop down list to Odd pages.
If you need the watermark on even pages only, set the
Subset drop down list to Even pages.
- Displaying Watermarks
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Printing watermarks.
You may need to have a watermark that appears if a document is
printed, but not visible in case the document is viewed on a
computer. Or, you may need to achieve the opposite: have the
watermark visible on the computer screen but not in printed
format.
Use Show when printing or Show
when displaying check boxes in the Appearance
group.
To set watermarks to appear behind the text or on top of the
text, use the Appear drop down list and set it to on
top or behind.
- Applying the same watermark to multiple documents
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Select a PDF and set up a watermark. Then click Apply
to Multiple. The Select Documents
window will open. Click Add to add as many PDF files as you
need to the list. The watermark will be applied to all of these
documents. Click OK to close the Select
Documents window.
Click Save As to apply the watermark.
- Dealing with PDF files that already have watermarks
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When you select a PDF file that already has a watermark, a box
will pop asking:
“This document already has a watermark. Do you want to replace
it?”
If you answer Yes, all the old watermarks will be removed
and you’ll be able to insert a new watermark if you want to.
If you answer No, the old watermarks will be preserved
and you’ll be able to add a new watermark on top of them.
- Removing watermarks from a PDF document
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When you select a PDF file that already contains some
watermarks, a box will pop up asking:
This document already has a watermark. Do you want to replace
it?”
If you answer Yes, all the old watermarks will be removed
and you’ll be able to insert a new watermark if you want to. If you
don’t want any new watermarks inserted, just click Save
As to save the document without any watermarks.