Creating multiple PDF's from word document with different watermarks

[mlewis]

I am currently writing a document in word, it will eventually be intended for external companies to whom I will give it in PDF format. While they are trusted partners there is nothing to stop people passing the document on and it getting back to our competition. Full MS secutiry with a server is not appropriate for this as we do not know all of the individuals who it will go to. Also I know there is a Java method to do this but I do not want top go down the road of generating my own application.

As a result of the above I would like to have some form of traceability, specifically I want to be able to add the name of the company we will be giving the document to as a watermark, there are 30 or so companies and I do not want to have to manually create the documents myself. I want to give a tool the list and for it to automatically generate the documents with a different watermark.

Does anyone know of a tool either free or commercial that is able to do this? Any recommendations or ideas would be appreciated.

Regards

Matt