Problem using Automator to create "Watermark PDF Documents"

After having updated our macs from Mavericks to Yosemite, the "Watermark PDF Documents" using Automator is no longer working.

Hi Miykael,
Do you have flash player installed on your system for that browser? Did you tried accessing that pdf file from a different browser?
I would also recommend you to refer this KB Document : https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/display-pdf-browser-acrobat-xi.html
Regards,
Rahul

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Since Lion, I'm unable to use the Auromator Action "Watermark PDF Documents"
I can select a .png file for the watermark, but it does not list in the action (see below)
Can someone confirm that they are also unable to get this action to work, as I would like to isolate this as a Lion issue and not a system issue on my end.

The answer to your problem is also on this page:
http://superuser.com/questions/384967/add-a-header-to-every-page-in-a-pdf
You can use the Watermark PDF documents action in Automator to add an image on every page of a PDF file. You can specify location, scale, rotation, and opacity.
Manually fixing the workflow for Mac OS X Lion
Set up the entire automator workflow as you would, but skip adding the watermark image (you can't). Save the workflow to a file. Right-click the workflow in Finder and select Show Package Contents and navigate into Contents. Opendocument.wflow in a text editor, e.g. TextMate.
The actual parameters and their values are stored in the ActionParameters dictionary. The relevant key isfilenames. By default, it looks like this:
<key>ActionParameters</key> <dict> <key>angle</key> <integer>0</integer> <key>fileNames</key> <array/> <key>onePDF</key> <false/>
Just edit the <array/> declaration and add all files as <string>s, like so:
<key>fileNames</key> <array> <string>/Users/danielbeck/Desktop/test.png</string> </array>
Save the file, and reopen the workflow in Automator. The image will be correctly listed, and you can fix its position and other properties, before you apply it.
Remember that the workflow does not replace the input file as many others do, the output is written to a temporary file. Use the Move Finder Items action afterwards.

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I couldn't find the QuickLook folder but I took a screen shot.
What I am asking for is someone to tell me what the workflow should look like.
I have tried
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-Watermark PDF Documents
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-View Results
..and all combinations of those items. I tried Watermark PDF Documents by iteslef as a Print Plugin...it gets to Preview but there is no watermark.
No matter what I try the same result happens "The action 'Watermark PDF Documents' was not supplied with the required data."
I have tried JPEG and PNG images, several different files with different sizes, shapes and colors. I even tried the images you supplied above. It never works.
I'd love for someone to be able to make it work on their computer then tell me how they did it so I can duplicate it. If if still doesn't work for me then I'll know it's something to do with my computer.

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Can you open the Preview program without loading a file, like by itself?
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Looks like a bug: under 10.7.2 i cannot add a picture to the Automator Action "Watermark PDF Documents.action".
Works perfectly under 10.6.8.

Its a verified bug (Automator - Watermark PDF Documents).
Please report to http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html
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Problem using Automator to create "Watermark PDF Documents"

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