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Re: [iText-questions] removing metadata from existing PDF  documents

Florian Effenberger

2005-06-20

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Hi Leonard,

>      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.

never had any problem so far, and I don't know why removing this
information should cause problems with viewing and printing. After all,
it's PDF, it doesn't matter which application produced it.

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

Can you name me one?

Thanks
Florian


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