Presently when a PDF is generated (using 0.9.8 for this example). I have TITLE / USER / DATE / etc etc etc all automatically populated. Is there a way where I can exclude *all* META information?
Ultimately I'm looking for a completely META free PDF so that I do not have to use a scrapper after the PDFs are generated.
TB2:
Did you ever solve your problem? This sounds similar to my complaint on 6/9/10 about trying to suppress PDF header information.
If you found a solution I would like to hear about it.
TIA,
-larry
I havn't found a native way of doing it, no. I have been able to remove some of the information by adding place holder information (title, author, creation dates) but no way of stripping the information completely.
I was looking over it again today and saw that there is a post-process script which can be run after a job is completed. I may just find a third party tool twice supports a command line interface and see if I can strip META information that way. No simple task yet unfortunately.
For what it's worth there is a command line tool to remove META information however it will probably require some VB work. The command line to remove all META information from a PDF (using the latest version) is:
EXIF.EXE -all=
http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/
This command would be run using the actions too (action after saving).
And here is the
http://freeweb.siol.net/hrastni3/
direct download link is：
http://freeweb.siol.net/hrastni3/foto/exif/exiftoolgui.zip
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Thanks for the reference. However, I tried ExifTool and it does not remove this information from PDFs made by PDFcreator.
Any other suggestions?
Hi Larryg,
We too noticed the same problem where the EXIF tool inserts /0000 in front of each character so that it 'seems' blanked by EXIF but the data is still there. We noticed this problem as our documents were increasing in size after we attempted to 'scrub' the data. We havn't tried the EXIM tool yet was posted above however if it uses the same engine we are expecting the same results.
We are still looking for a solution to this, I hope the developers see that there is a practical need for a built in META scrubber and hope it's considered in a following patch.