This process worked well, but you can see why I wanted to automate it: too much me in every step.
Save the newly watermarked file under the same name but with “draft” appended to it.Choose the graphic I wanted to imprint, a file named draft.pdf.Choose the Imprint All Pages With Image… command from the scripts menu.I’d already been using PDFpenPro’s “Imprint All Pages With Image…” script. And if I need to write an AppleScript, I’d rather just write the whole thing as a script instead of bouncing back and forth between actions and scripts. I’m sure there’s a way to save the file and folder names in variables before adding the watermark and then retrieve them later for the moving and renaming operations, but it looks like I’ll have to drop down into AppleScript to do that. I could, of course, move this new file and rename it, but at this point in the workflow the original file’s name and folder are lost, so they’re not available anymore. It creates a copy that’s off in some subdirectory of /private/var/. The problem with the built-in watermarking action is that, unlike many of the other image actions, it doesn’t change the file in place. What I couldn’t live with was Automator’s inability to put the watermarked file where I wanted it. I was a little disappointed to find that it would use only bitmapped images-like PNGs or JPEGs-for the overlay instead of crisp and infinitely scalable PDF images, but I could live with that. I had hopes that this would be a simple Service to build, because I knew there was a “Watermark PDF Documents” action in Automator. I could always make a duplicate beforehand and watermark it. The new file has the same name as the original but with “draft” appended to it.Ī less than ideal, but still acceptable, solution would be one in which the original file gets watermarked and saved in place. I end up with a new watermarked file in the same folder as the original.I right-click and choose “Draft” from the Services submenu.I select the PDF to be watermarked in the Finder.Ideally, the command would work this way: I wanted a one-step command that would put a big “DRAFTS” watermark on every page of a PDF document. Happy Photo Editing.Next post Previous post One-step watermarking service
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