At 04:00 AM 6/20/2005, Florian Effenberger wrote:
>>      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.

     If all that is going to happen to the document is viewing and
printing - then sure, it won't matter since that info won't be used.

     HOWEVER, if those documents will end up as part of an aggregation,
imposition or archival system - then the info becomes relevant.


>After all, it's PDF, it doesn't matter which application produced it.

     As long as there are no problems - that's true...


>>      There are ready-made command line tools for most OS platforms.
>
>Can you name me one?

     pdf-tools, APSetInfo, PDF Enhancer, etc...


Leonard

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