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LPA documents - watermark

  • June 1, 2026
  • 3 replies
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Hi

I have produced LPA drafts through Smokeball which are in pdf format.  I would like to add a ‘DRAFT’ watermark to the drafts - similar to word documents - does anyone know how to do this?

TIA

 

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Sara Sultan
Smokeball Team
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  • Smokeball Team
  • June 2, 2026

Hello ​@Natalie H 

As you know, this is not currently a feature within Smokeball. I have passed along this suggestion to our product team. I'm curious to see if other users know how to add a watermark to a PDF.


Huma
Smokeball Team
  • Smokeball Team
  • June 3, 2026

​@Natalie H Piggybacking on what Sara said, if you have Adobe Acrobat, you can go to Tools > Edit PDF > Watermark > Add, to add a custom watermark. There are also free online pdf editors like smallpdf, in a pinch, but I do not know their data security or retention policies, and they likely have file size or quantity limitations, so I understand that there are many reasons to be hesitant to use them on privileged docs. 

 


I am also looking for a solution to this!  It is so easy to add the PDFs from Sb into an email to send directly to clients.  I would not want to have to open the PDF first, add the watermark, and then resave to SB (which will undoubtedly create a duplicate document), and then attach/email to client.   would be great to embed a watermark into the document templates so that when attached to emails as a PDF the watermark is already there.