Firefox PDF reader not showing watermarks

Firefox PDF reader is not showing watermarks.
People can see (and print?) my free samples minus the watermarks that are in them.
eg at lauriewilliamsmusic.com/composers/laurie-williams/auld-lang-syne/
Watermarks were put in by PDFill Free PDF Tools and always show up in Adobe Reader.
I never imagined that such a failure could happen until I was checking things today and saw it. Not good.
Just realised that this thing is asking about my browser. I'm writing this in Chrome but I have the latest version of Firefox.

Hi Laurie,
I appreciate the issue & problems it causes you, however this is not the best place to ask.
TL:DR
Explain the issue very briefly in a suitable mailing list/forum
#See listing https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/forums/
#* This one would seem approprite to ask about the technical aspects [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/forums/#dev-pdf-js #dev-dpf] <br /> And possibly this one to ask about the watermarks being defeated [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/forums/#privacy #privacy]
#* Initially Ask for advice in where to discuss this mater if not their forum. Ensuring you make the point it is a global Firefox issue with a Firefox default feature and not a site specific problem.
#Post back here to keep us informed of your progress, including links to the conversations..
I must immediately say I do not know the first thing about the technical aspects of the Firefx PDF reader.
I surmise that it is not a deliberate intention to remove the watermarks but a limitation in the PDF reader's ability to support such a feature. However I could be wrong as there are people who would; no doubt; argue Firefox should not support watermarks, as that restricts free access to material on the Web.
This is not the place for any such discussion about internet rights. Neither do we discuss development decisions and policies. It is often difficult to find anywhere on Mozilla where they do discuss anything like that retrospectively.
IIRC Admin Staff on this site agreed to identify and list any such resources, but I don't recall anything being done about that.
You could just file a bug (I could help if necessary) for such a feature, however it would be much better to start a discussion about this first with the people concerned. A bug filed without prior discussion with module owners may well be effectively ignored.
I've flagged this as offtopic, but I will not lock the post until I know you have found somewhere to discuss this.

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