Watermark on the sheet Music

I would think it's easier to export (save as) your score to pdf with MuseScore and use one of the many pdf products out there to watermark the pdf.

I support this request.

Watermarking would be a great benefit.

Even if it's initially limited to just simple text entered via the keyboard, in a light shade of grey and at some fixed font size and orientation away from horizontal, that would be a good first implementation.

If the font size is small enough then the text content can be repeated and will then cover most of the page area, so no small part of the score could be copied with no part of the watermark showing.

Ability to use a custom image, plus any text entered from the keyboard, and set brightness, contrast, colours, angle, size and position of the image and text separately would be a good enhancement.

Results of a brief search for free PDF watermark programs and initial experimentation with them.

I had a quick look at free online services but none seemed anywhere near as clean to use as the two best of the programs I found.

Many PDF creators exist which can add watermarks, but not to existing PDF files.

PDFFill PDF Tools

Seems to install with no crapware shown on the way.

Can insert text or images.

In text mode, can take only one line of text, with no paragraph separation, which it scales to fit,
so adding more characters means a smaller line of resulting text, but it does it well.

Grey font with the diagonal text "free sample for evaluation only" makes a seriously ugly watermark which few people would tolerate on a score in use, even printed on a black only printer.

Adding red outlines to the text makes it even more hideous, at least on screen or printed in colour. Lovely.

A strong incentive to do the right thing by buying a legal copy to use.

Watermarking by image works well. It can be scaled and positioned anywhere within the page margins.

It watermarks every page of the PDF file, essential for this purpose.

It can even make transparent versions of images, to use for watermarking.

Just right for this job.

Batch PDF Stamp

This one also seems to install with no crapware shown on the way.

Its text and images watermarking functions are similar to those of PDFFill PDF Tools.

It can watermark a large number of PDF files in one batch, but depending on the positioning of content in various scores you may need to add your watermarks in different positions. If so, doing all of them in one batch would be impractical.

But the free version watermarks only the first page, so it's only useful for watermarking single page PDF files.

What is the exact purpose for the water marks? I put two kinds of watermarks in the attached file. One is done with MuseScore's text tool (system text or something similar). It doesn't work very well, because some of the graphic elements in the sheet music get below the text layer, some above.

The other label is a simple png image that I quickly created with Gimp. Seems some elements lie below the image layer here, too, but since the png image has alpha transparency, it doesn't disturb that much. The thing is to create a black image for the watermark and then add the alpha transparency to make it grey. My png image text wasn't all black, there was some grey, too.

If you plan to use the same watermark in all your sheets, I'd suggest you design it once and for all in your favourite graphic editor as a faint transparent png image. Of course it would make very big pdf files, if the image is as large as the page. If you want to design a unique watermark for each sheet you write, the most convenient thing would of course be a built-in tool in MuseScore. And as a simple text thing, it wouldn't create huge pdf files.

I think its too late to respond in this discussion. But recently I used an online free tool which allows inserting watermark into PDF documents. This solution may be also helpful for other needed persons: //onlinefreeware.net/pdf/watermark.aspx