Header & footer
Add a line of text to the top or bottom of every page.
- Zero-transmission processing
- No watermark
- Limited daily trial
- Unlimited on Pro
Drop your PDF here
or choose it from your files
Your files are never transmitted. Nothing is uploaded.
Before you start
- Use {n} for the page number and {total} for the page count in either line.
- Cover page? Leave the first page blank so the header starts on page 2.
Good to know
- Accepts
- Files at once
- One at a time
- Transmission
- None — nothing is uploaded.
Chain it
Run Header & footer → Watermark PDF back to back — nothing to download in between.
How to do it
Add your file
Add the PDF that needs a line of text along the top or the bottom of its pages.
Set it up the way you want
Type the header, the footer or both, choose the alignment, and use the placeholders if you want numbering.
Download the result
Download the document. Every page carries the line, and the placeholders have been replaced with real numbers.
More than one change to make?
Open the editor: change the text that’s already there, fill and sign, cover up and rearrange pages — one file, undo for every step.
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Open the editorQuestions about Header & footer
- How do the page-number placeholders work?
- Write {n} where the current page number goes and {total} for the page count. "Page {n} of {total}" comes out as "Page 3 of 40". Leave them out and the same text simply repeats on every page, which is what you want for a document title or a confidentiality notice.
- What is the difference between this and add page numbers?
- Page numbers is the narrow tool: numbers, a position, a starting value. This one takes arbitrary text and can carry numbers as well. If all you need is 1, 2, 3, the other tool has fewer settings to get wrong.
- Can I put the line on only some pages?
- Yes. Type the page numbers and only those get it. The common case is skipping the cover: page one of a report usually should not carry the running header that every other page does.