2 Ways to Add Watermark to PDF on Mac Easily

A watermarked PDF file contains a digital watermark that protects your personal & confidential documents from being illegally copied by others. A watermark can be in the form of a text, image, date, signature, logo, or page number - that appears more likely as a stamp. How can I add watermark to PDF documents to protect copyright information? Below is a step-by-step guide to show how you can insert watermark in PDF documents on Mac (macOS 10.15 Catalina) without any hassle.

Part 1: The Best Way to Add Watermark to PDF on Mac

PDFelement ProPDFelement Pro is a professional PDF editor, which will provide you the easiest way to add watermark to PDF files. With the help of this watermark creator, you can easily add an image watermark to PDF documents, you can also choose to add a text watermark to a PDF with ease. Moreover, you can even add multiple watermarks on a single PDF page or add watermarks to multiple PDF files.

Steps to Add Watermark in PDF Documents on Mac (10.15 Catalina included)

Step 1. Run the PDF Watermark Creator

First, download the PDF watermark creator and run this software, click on the "Open" option to choose the PDF file you want to add watermark.

Step 2. Set PDF Watermark

Click on the "Tool" button and select the "Add or Edit Watermark" option. On the left side of the main interface, you can create a watermark with ease. Firstly, a watermark could be created from text, image and another PDF file, and you can set the font and color of the watermark. Secondly, from the "Edit Watermark" option, you can set rotation, opacity, scale and location of the watermark. Last but not least, the position of the watermark is up to you. And you can also decide to add a watermark to every page or a specific page on the PDF file. Click "Save," the watermark you created will be stick on a PDF file.

Step 3. Add Watermark to Multiple PDF Files

With this watermark creator, you can also add watermark to multiple PDF files. Back to the main interface, click on the "Tool" button and select "Add Watermark," then click "Add" to add the PDF files. Choose the watermark you want to add to the multiple PDF files, then click "Apply" to begin the process of batch adding watermark to PDF files. Batch-add watermark to PDFs is as easy as the way of adding watermark on a single PDF file.

Step 4. Save Watermark PDF File

After you selected the folder to choose the watermarked PDF files, the watermark PDF file will be saved within seconds, click "Finish," you will find these in your folder.

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Why Choose PDFelement Pro for Mac to Add Watermark in PDF File

To add watermark to PDF, you need an editing tool such as PDFelement ProPDFelement Pro. PDFelement Pro is designed professionally as a user-friendly application and comes with many amazing features: that will allow you to edit PDF documents just as you would do with a word processor. The feature to watermark a PDF is just one of the many options available. This PDF watermark for Mac (macOS 10.15 Catalina) tool also allows the encryption of PDFs with password; the creation and conversion of PDF files from Excel, Word & PowerPoint as well as to easily add markups and annotations to PDF documents.

Key features of This PDF Editor:

• Watermark a PDF with text or image, and provide options to customize the watermark.
• Edit PDF and fill out PDF forms just as you would do with a word processor.
• Enables you to encrypt PDF with a password and decrypt secured PDF easily.
• Convert PDF files to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, EPUB, HTML and other files.
• Create PDF from Webpages, Text files, HTML and more.

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Part 2: Top 3 Free Online PDF Watermark Creator

You also can find some free online PDF watermark creators from the Internet. These online tools allow you to upload your PDF file to the site and customize the watermark directly without download any applications. Here are the top three online PDF watermark creators that I recommend to you. Those 3 online tools will help you to watermark PDF online with ease.

#1: PDFCandy

PDFCandy is an online tool that enables you to add a watermark to PDF online for totally free. After uploading your PDF file to pdfaid.com, you can start to type the watermark text and customize the font, size, position and other elements of your watermark.

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#2: Watermark-images.com PDF Watermark

This online PDF watermark creator is also a simple tool to add watermark to PDF online directly. You can also get options to personalize font type, font size, font color, font style and position of the watermark text. However, you cannot preview your watermark before you download it. And if you want more features on the watermark, you have to go to the paid version.

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#3: VeryPDF Free PDF Stamp Online

The VeryPDF online watermark tool also provides you a convenient way to watermark PDF online as you want. You can upload your PDF file or enter the URL for the file to add a watermark but you have to keep the file size within 10 MB. And you can get specified options for the watermark position but cannot customize the position as the above two tools. The watermarked PDF file can be directly downloaded to your local folder.

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