At 04:26 PM 6/19/2005, Florian Effenberger wrote:
>I don't want anyone to know what program my PDFs were created with, that's
>why I want to remove the metadata. Call me paranoid, but I want to keep
>that secret. :-)

     No, you REALLY do not!  It is EXTREMELY important that that
information be present in the PDF, as it aids in diagnostics by PDF
consumers downstream. If you blank it out, then you may end up causing
problems for your users - for no valid reason.


>>You can indeed change that with PdfStamper as well.
>
>Do I need to program in Java for that or is it available as run-ready
>command line tool?

     There are ready-made command line tools for most OS platforms.


Leonard

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