PDF Header & Footer

It is the default. The footer opens as "Page {n} of {total}", with the total taken from the file's own page count. Reword it freely, for example "{n} / {total}"; typing {page} and {pages} works too.

Not here; every page gets the text. For numbers alone, Add Page Numbers has Start on page and First number settings. Otherwise split off the cover with Split PDF, stamp the rest and rejoin with Merge PDF; {n} and {total} then count only the stamped pages.

No: the small size, slate-grey ink and distance from the edge are fixed. You choose the wording, the fields and each band's alignment. The typeface follows the characters: while everything in both bands fits the Western Windows-1252 set, German and French accents included, both are set in Helvetica; one character outside it, such as Polish ł, moves both bands to a Noto face.

It never removes anything. The line is drawn over the page with no background, so text already in that spot will overlap it, and running the tool twice gives two headers. Try another alignment if the edge is busy.

Encryption is checked the moment the file is read, and an encrypted PDF gets a message naming its lock, with a link to Unlock PDF, instead of the editor: it is called password-protected only when it needs a password to open. Unlock PDF removes the lock with a password you know (for a file that opens freely, its owner password), but it runs on pdf.xyz's secure server: the file travels there over TLS and the unlocked copy's link lasts 60 minutes. Header or footer text is refused when it is Arabic or Hebrew (lines are laid out left to right and would come out reversed), when it needs a script no shipped font draws, such as Thai, Tamil or colour emoji, or when the two bands together need two different faces, like a Japanese header over a Bengali footer. {date} is switched, not refused: when your browser writes dates in digits no shipped font can draw beside your text, such as the Persian or Arabic-Indic digits of a Persian or Egyptian Arabic browser, the same day is stamped in Latin digits on the Gregorian calendar in your locale's order (a Persian browser writes 27 September 2026 as 2026/9/27), or as YYYY-MM-DD if that still will not fit, and the preview by each heading shows exactly what will be printed. The message names the script, or lists the characters when it cannot.

No. It is opened, stamped and saved in your browser tab, up to 100 MB. When your text or the {date} value has characters Helvetica cannot encode, the page also downloads a Noto font file from pdf.xyz's own site; that request carries no part of your document.

Not fully. The page and its processing engine load over the network, and parts of the engine are fetched the first time a step needs them. The processing itself runs on your device. Drawing text in a script outside the Western European alphabet downloads a matching font from our site the first time it is needed, and that step needs a connection.

Up to 100 MB per file.

Any text you type, plus {n} for the page number, {total} for the number of pages and {date} for today's date, written the way your device writes dates — or, when that form has characters none of our fonts can draw beside your text, in Latin digits in the same order, or as YYYY-MM-DD. Each is one line, aligned left, center or right.

No: the header and footer go on every page. To number the pages but skip a cover, use Add Page Numbers, which can start on a later page.