Adding white space for watermarks

[alistair]

Hi,

I need to put a watermark on a bunch of technical documents without obstructing any of the information of the PDF. I was hoping I could just add a negative number into the crop tool to add some extra white space to place the watermark, but it does not allow me to do this. I'm quite new to the software and was wondering if there was a way for me to do this.

Thanks in advance.

-Alistair

[Stefan - PDF-XChange]

Hello Alistair,

Welcome to our forums and products

I am afraid that this can't be done as a one step process unless you create your own custom tool.
You will need to resize your pages: e.g. vertically by adding 20 mm on top, then offset the content with 20mm down from the top, to leave those new 20 mm empty, then in a next step you can add your watermark in the newly created space.

Regards,
Stefan

[alistair]

Okay that works, but only so long as the files are in the same orientation. Is it possible to get the PDFs dimensions to show while I am viewing them in Windows Explorer? That way I can do two batches, one for portrait documents and one for landscape documents.

Many thanks,

Alistair

[Stefan - PDF-XChange]

Hi Alistair,

The PDF specification does not prevent even the same document to contain both landscape and portrait pages (or each page to be it's own custom size...) - so there is no such universal method, but if you e.g. turn on thumbnails view - you should be able to visually distinguish the landscape from portrait first pages - that's what the thumbnail shows.

Regards,
Stefan