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Jul 26, 2016 8:14 AM in response to Kevlesserby VikingOSX,So, essentially you want to watermark those 2500 PDF 1 pages with the PDF 2 image — right?
If so, you can do this by creating an Automator application with four ordered actions:
- Files and Folders : Ask for Finder Items
- Files and Folders : Filter Finder Items
- All -> Kind is PDF
- PDF : Watermark PDF Documents
- Convert your PDF 2 document to Photoshop PSD, Tiff, JPG, PNG, etc.
- Add this image as the watermark
- Select Draw watermark under PDF
- Continuously adjust your scale and offset values to “fly” your watermark into position
- Adjust opacity to taste.
- Files and Folders : Move Finder Items
- Put the finished PDF on your Desktop
Here is the Automator application workflow. I started with a peregrine-falcon.pdf, opened it in Affinity Designer, and exported it as a Photoshop (.psd) file. You can use Preview with the Export… option. Use the option key to expand graphic formats (e.g. Tiff, Photoshop, etc.). Click to enlarge.
And the result post-watermarked, as viewed in Preview:
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Jul 26, 2016 8:58 AM in response to Kevlesserby VikingOSX,My Automator solution was built and run on OS X 10.11.6. No errors with multiple PDF document selection. The watermark file was a Photoshop PSD exported from its original PDF.
What version of OS X are you using? In Mavericks and early Yosemite, there were issues with the Python code inside that Watermark PDF action. That Watermark PDF documents command line tool error appears to be this Python issue. Have you updated, or modified the OS X installed Python installation?
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Jul 26, 2016 9:00 AM in response to Kevlesserby VikingOSX,I no longer have any Yosemite access as all my Macs are now at 10.11.6.
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Jul 26, 2016 10:24 AM in response to Kevlesserby Hiroto,Hello
Here's relevant thread where you can find fixed version of the pyobjc script.
Automator Watermark PDF Workflow
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6620337
Good luck,
H
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Jul 26, 2016 12:14 PM in response to Kevlesserby VikingOSX,Throw some multi-page boilerplate text into TextEdit and export to PDF. Try this different PDF on the same Automator application to determine if the Python error is consistent, or there was something in your original 2500 page PDF that caused it.
If reproducible, then Hiroto's post, or open your 2500 page PDF in Word 2016 for Windows, convert the PDF to DOCX, and then apply a watermark to the DOCX, and re-export to PDF.
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Jul 26, 2016 12:34 PM in response to Kevlesserby VikingOSX,Throw some multi-page boilerplate text into TextEdit and export to PDF. Try this different PDF on the same Automator application to determine if the Python error is consistent, or there was something in your original 2500 page PDF that caused it.
If reproducible, then Hiroto's post, or open your 2500 page PDF in Word 2016 for Windows, convert the PDF to DOCX, and then apply a watermark to the DOCX, and re-export to PDF. If you happen to have PDFpenPro on your Mac, then you can follow these directions and watermark your 2500 page PDF with another PDF.


