Practical use cases
- Marking a draft "DRAFT" or "CONFIDENTIAL" before circulating it internally, so no one mistakes it for the final version.
- Stamping "SAMPLE" across a preview version of paid material — a course handout, a template — before the full version is delivered.
- Adding a name or date across a document you're sharing, as a simple way to track which copy went to whom.
What the watermark does — and doesn't — change
This is a text watermark only — there's no option to stamp a logo or image instead. Whatever text you enter is applied identically to every page of the document; there's no way to skip specific pages or vary the text page by page in a single pass. The text is centered on the page and rotated around that center point at the angle you choose, using a fixed bold font — size, opacity, and angle are adjustable, but the typeface itself isn't. Everything else already on the page — the original text, images, layout — is left completely untouched underneath it.
Common problems
- The watermark won't apply: the text field can't be empty — "Enter the watermark text first" is what you'll see if it is.
- The watermark is too bold or too faint: opacity ranges from 5% to 100% — lower it for a subtler mark, raise it if the current setting doesn't stay visible over darker content.
- The watermark is cut off at the edges on some pages: a long piece of text at a large font size and a steep angle can extend past the visible page area on smaller page sizes — shortening the text or reducing the font size keeps it fully on the page.