You’ve probably come across a lot of different document types in your life. When you were still a student, you may have dealt with tons of paperwork for your assignments. As an employee or adult, you’ll also be coming across digital documents either for work, transactions, contracts, and so many more. The thing with digital documents is that they’ll most probably be in PDF format.
PDF files are the most common-used file format of today because of how easily accessible they are on almost every type of device. The best thing about PDF files is that they don’t require you to download any additional plug-ins or apps to read or access. And this is why most schools when it comes to giving out digital hands outs and reading materials for schools, and documents for companies use PDF files to their students or employees. You’ll also find that when saving or sharing PDF files, it doesn’t take much disk space, so it’s also easier for both you and the recipient.
There will come a time that you may need to protect confidential information on PDF files either as a freelancer or for your company. It’s one of the best ways to protect your documents from document theft or unauthorized distribution. You’ll be happy to know that putting watermarks on your PDF files is actually very easy to do. So, if you want to learn more about how to do this, then keep on reading.
Let PDFBear help you out
There are many tools or applications that you can use to put a watermark on your PDF file, but one of the best to use is PDFBear. If you haven’t heard of PDFBear before, then you’re definitely missing out! So what exactly is PDFBear? Well, aside from an online tool that lets you add watermark to PDF files, it’s actually a software as a service (or SaaS) that gives you so many other options like turning other file types to PDF format, or the other way around.
The PDFBear website doesn’t need any learning curb, because it’s pretty much direct. You can easily navigate through the features and get exactly what you need to make turn your files into the format that you want them to be. The best part about it is that you don’t have to do any additional downloads for plug-ins or applications, because you can do everything all on your web browser, directly on the site. On top of that, PDFBear is free to use. You don’t need to make a purchase or subscription to avail of its many useful features. Awesome, right? So now that you know what PDFBear is all about, let’s now dive into how to use it to add watermarks to your PDF files.
Choose the file you want to watermark
On the “Add Watermark” page of PDFBear, click “Select a File” to choose the file you would like a watermark to. You can also just open a file folder and click and drag the file to the website. Then, just for a few seconds for the file to be uploaded.
Add your own watermark
Once you have uploaded your PDF file to the website, you can then type a text or phrase to act as your watermark. If you want an image or logo as your watermark, you can do so. PDFBear gives you the freedom to choose the kind of watermark you would like to add to your PDF file, which is awesome!
Position your watermark
Position your image or text watermark anywhere you’d like. But we do recommend placing the watermark right in the middle page of the document so that it would be much harder for potential thieves and leakers to steal or leak your PDF file.
Download your watermarked PDF file
Once you’re happy with the position of your watermark, you can now “Apply changes” and your newly-watermarked PDF file is ready for download. Download your PDF and wait for it to be completed. Just like uploading, this step will only take you a few seconds.
Easy, huh?
Now wasn’t that easy with PDFBear? It didn’t even take you too much time or effort to do, so try it PDFBear out for yourself and you’ll be wondering how you’ve been going on with your assignments or work without it.