Hi all,
some metadata in the PDF files created with PDFCreator are coded in some way instead being written in plain text.
Example:
/Title(\\376\\377\\000T\\000h\\000i\\000s\\000 \\000i\\000s\\000 \\000d\\000o\\000c\\000u\\000m\\000e\\000n\\000t\\000 \\000t\\000i\\000t\\000l\\000e)
instead of:
/Title(This is document title)
These metadata are visible trough File properties in a PDF viewer.
I have tested some PDF viewers and so far the only one that doesn't convert this code into text is PDF-XChange viewer.
Adobe and FoxIt doesn't show this annoyance.
Unfortunately PDF-XChange is my preferred reader.
Is this annoyance addressable by the PDFCreator developers or I must submit it to PDF-XChange viewer developers?
Thanks is advance!
Gianni
Problem is in Ghostscript - it generates wrong metadata for PDF. For ver1.3 it doesn't generates metadata because it was introduced into version 1.4.
I did some testing with 0.9.9 PDF Creator allows you to change the PDF
PDF version 1.4 same problem, same problem PDF/A-1b version 1.4, PDF / X version 1.3 and the problem is solved
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
PDF/A is a file format for the long-term archiving of electronic documents. It is based on the PDF Reference Version 1.4 from Adobe Systems Inc. (implemented in Adobe Acrobat 5 and latest versions) and is defined by ISO 19005-1:2005, an ISO Standard that was published on October 1, 2005:
- Document Management - Electronic document file format for long term preservation - Part 1: Use of PDF 1.4 (PDF/A-1)
A new version of PDF/A based on PDF 1.7 - ISO 32000-1 is currently under development (ISO/DIS 19005-2).[1]
PDF/A is in fact a subset of PDF, obtained by leaving out PDF features not suited to long-term archiving. This is similar to the definition of the PDF/X subset for the printing and graphic arts.
PDF/X is formalized in ISO Standard 15929 and 15930