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PDFWatermarkSimple

Abstract

you want to add a watermark to a PDF file simply by drag & dropping it over an icon on your Windows desktop.

Installation

Just download the Windows version of PDF toolkit and uncompress it inside a c:\tools\ directory.

Save your watermark as a PDF file under c:\tools\watermark.pdf.

Create an empty text file that you rename PDFwatermark.bat and edit its content using Notepad to include the following:

Now create a shortcut to PDFwatermark.bat and place it on your desktop. You can rename it, make it run minimized and change its default icon to something a bit more telling, like:

(Right-Click and save to download the corresponding Window ICO file)

Usage

Now whenever you produce a PDF, you can drag & drop it onto this shortcut and a presto, the watermark will be automagically added to it!

Links

• The pdf toolkit official page
• The more complete article about doing something similar using a PDFprinter under linux.