On 2015-07-26 11:37 AM, Russell Reiter wrote:
… I forgot I had previously used ImageMagic's "convert" to combine pages, perhaps I can also use it to apply the page numbers as watermarks.
It *may* convert the pages to bitmaps, which is likely not what you want. But I could be wrong: when Chris at Seneca mentioned using Pango Markup Language <http://www.pygtk.org/pygtk2reference/pango-markup-language.html> in ImageMagick at a recent talk, I was pleasantly surprised that it made decent all-vector PDFs via IM. Another option for overlaying watermarks is Apache PDFBox. It works from the command line, but you are invoking Java: https://pdfbox.apache.org/1.8/commandline.html#overlayPDF Usage looks fiddly, but PDFBox is pretty mature. cheers, Stewart