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After adding the text watermark and clicking on the PDF, Acrobat reader will display a large blinking cursor that looks more like a rendering artifact or start selecting the watermark text.

Can the watermark text be made non-selectable?

The watermark is a large "Draft" text under the existing content: using c# itextsharp PDF creation with watermark on each page

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To my knowledge there is no way to make text non-selectable.

As an alternative to the large blinking cursor you may instead put an image of your watermark on the PDF. This would instead give a small cross-hair cursor when you mouse over the watermark image.

Example: How can I insert an image with iTextSharp in an existing PDF?

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  • Agree. @Brian, see this post for some hacks. http://itext-general.2136553.n4.nabble.com/Text-Selection-question-td2154502.html – Chris Haas Apr 27 '12 at 13:40