EDDiMark PDF

EDDiMark PDF is an Easy Digital Downloads extension for watermarking and/or passwording PDF files with customer information upon download, or anytime from the EDD settings panel. It not only can be used to help protect intellectual property, but also to customize/personalize PDF certificates, awards, coupons, and other documents.

EDDiMark PDF has been replaced by PDF Ink

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EDDiMark is a PDF watermarking extension for Easy Digital Downloads, and works only with Easy Digital Downloads installed and configured.

Features

EDDiMark includes a ton of features:

  • Password protect your PDF files (optional). Choose a password, or set buyer’s email as the password. Unlock PDF entirely with user password only if desired (override of owner password with user password)
  • Granular control of file protections with choice of encryption type (RC4 and AES).
  • Watermark designated PDF downloads (as specified by you), or *all* PDF downloads from your site
  • Per-download watermarking settings! Have unique watermarks on a per-download basis.
  • Full featured test and on-the-fly PDF stamping from the settings panel – no EDD purchases necessary. Watermark a PDF any time.
  • Compatibility with EDD Free Downloads
  • Compatibility with EDD All Access
  • Allows watermarking files hosted at Dropbox in conjunction with the Easy Digital Downloads Dropbox extension
  • Allows watermarking files hosted on AWS in conjunction with the Easy Digital Downloads – Amazon S3 extension
  • Watermark can be moved on the page, allowing for different paper sizes (such as letter, A4, legal, etc)
  • Watermarks on portrait and landscape-oriented pages
  • Dynamic customer data inputs using shortcodes for customer first name, last name, email, payment ID, order date, and future date
  • Choice of font face, color, size and placement (horizontal line of text anywhere on the page)
  • Add your own TTF font file and watermark with your font
  • Watermark all PDF/paper sizes, not just standard sizes
  • Extended support for stamping in your language (Windows-1252 AND extended characters offered by DejaVu Sans, M Sung [Chinese]and Furat [Arabic])
  • Support for RTL (right-to-left) watermarking
  • Watermark with png/gif/jpg images
  • Preserves existing external URL links embedded in the PDF.
  • Rotatable transparent page overlay watermark, apart from footer watermark (two watermark locations!)
  • Additional text formatting options, such as style (bold, italics, HTML), and alignment (left/right/center) using inline CSS
  • Begin watermark on selected page of PDF document (to avoid watermarking a cover page, for example)
  • Watermark every page, every odd page, or every even page. Watermark the first page only or the last page only.
  • Designate end page for watermarking (page to stop watermarking after)
  • Optionally prevent copying, annotating, or modifying of your PDF files
  • Localization ready.
  • Filter hook to add your own font – ‘eddimark_add_custom_font’
  • Filter hook – ‘eddimark_add_barcode’ – to add a 1D or 2D barcode such as a QR CODE to your watermark!
  • Error logging in the Easy Digital Downloads console
  • Open source code – get your hands dirty if you want!

Notes
In January 2025 this plugin was replaced by PDF Ink, and active development stopped December 31 2025. Existing users are free to continue using it but are encouraged to upgrade to PDF Ink – a better WordPress plugin for Easy Digital Downloads PDF Watermarking.