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Watermarks

Apply the default or customized dynamic watermark to your PDFs in the Room.

Ciara Martin avatar
Written by Ciara Martin
Updated over a year ago

ℹ️This feature is only available to Admins.

Watermarks can be added to all PDFs.
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Default watermarks include the basic user details of the person who opens the document including IP address, email address and date/time the document was accessed. Watermarks can also be customized.

There are two Watermark templates pre-added – Confidential and Standard

These are the details included in the default watermarks -

· Confidential

- CONFIDENTIAL

- The email address of the user

- Date and Time of export/opening

- IP address of the user

· Standard

- Email address of the user

- Date and Time of export/opening


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To customize your watermarks follow the below steps:
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1. Go to the Left menu. Under Manage, select either Sell side or Buy side.

⚠️Good to know: The wording on the internal and external tabs for managing Teams/people under the Left menu change based on the Room’s transaction type. Learn more here.
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2. Locate a Team or Sub-team. 

3. Select the Item menu next to the Team or Sub-team. Then select Edit security.

4. Select a Watermark from the Watermark column. Then select Create watermark.

5. Fill out the information to customize your watermark.

  • Name your watermark. The name will not appear within the watermark itself

  • Select Add text block if you want more than one block of text

  • In Text Block 1 enter the text you want, or select Insert tags to further customize the watermark

  • Choose any dynamic tags that you want to appear in the watermark text.

⚠️Good to know: We recommend using the dynamic tags because then you are easily able to track the document.

  • Choose the watermark Position

  • Choose the watermark Font style

  • Choose the watermark Color

6. Select Preview.

7. A window with a sample PDF will appear with your watermark overlaid.

8. Select Add.

💡Tip: To apply a watermark to a Team or Sub-team’s files, simply select the Watermark column from the Edit security page. Then select the watermark that is to be applied to the PDFs. Learn more here.

⚠️Good to know: XFA-formatted PDF files and PDF portfolios, will only be secured and watermarked on the cover page.

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