Re: Word Meta Data And PDF Question

Subject: Re: Word Meta Data And PDF Question
From: dmbrown -at- brown-inc -dot- com
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 22:53:00 -0700


Dick Margulis wrote:
>
> ...Those are the only fields visible in the default PDF
> properties dialog, but it is possible that some other fields
> are concealed internally under some circumstances.

Actually, I also looked at the metadata source:

<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf='http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#'
xmlns:iX='http://ns.adobe.com/iX/1.0/'>

<rdf:Description about=''
xmlns='http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/'
xmlns:pdf='http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/'>
<pdf:CreationDate>2003-05-01T02:27:17Z</pdf:CreationDate>
<pdf:ModDate>2003-05-01T02:27:17Z</pdf:ModDate>
<pdf:Producer>Acrobat Distiller 5.0.5 (Windows)</pdf:Producer>
<pdf:Author>my author</pdf:Author>
<pdf:Creator>Acrobat PDFMaker 5.0 for Word</pdf:Creator>
<pdf:Title>title</pdf:Title>
<pdf:Subject>my subject</pdf:Subject>
<pdf:Keywords>my keyword 1, my keyword 2</pdf:Keywords>
</rdf:Description>

<rdf:Description about=''
xmlns='http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/'
xmlns:xap='http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/'>
<xap:CreateDate>2003-05-01T02:27:17Z</xap:CreateDate>
<xap:ModifyDate>2003-05-01T02:27:17Z</xap:ModifyDate>
<xap:Author>my author</xap:Author>
<xap:MetadataDate>2003-05-01T02:27:17Z</xap:MetadataDate>
<xap:Title>
<rdf:Alt>
<rdf:li xml:lang='x-default'>my title</rdf:li>
</rdf:Alt>
</xap:Title>
<xap:Description>
<rdf:Alt>
<rdf:li xml:lang='x-default'>my subject</rdf:li>
</rdf:Alt>
</xap:Description>
</rdf:Description>

<rdf:Description about=''
xmlns='http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/'
xmlns:dc='http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/'>
<dc:creator>my author</dc:creator>
<dc:title>my title</dc:title>
<dc:description>my subject</dc:description>
</rdf:Description>

</rdf:RDF>

I also checked the source text of the PDF:

1 0 obj
<<
/Producer (?÷puùi+??´??þv¥S?2½Bý¯µt»³ÿ#?Ý\(v)
/Author (·ávrôz)
/Creator (?÷puùi+?¼?«?ù²?\)£Rµõç|»µã#)
/Subject (¥á`pþk+)
/ModDate (?®0*«;o?`ÈößØ¥+ù ?1´Bã½)
/Keywords (½ñ{môz;?bÔç??ëm¯SÆ'¡)
/Title (¢ývvþ)
/CreationDate (?®0*«;o?`ÈößØ¥+÷ ?0´Bã½)
>>
endobj

Word provided some of these fields, Acrobat provided others. Of the ones I specified, only the title, author, subject, and keywords were transferred to the PDF file.

If there are others, they're really well concealed. There's no other mention of metadata in Acrobat's UI or in the help.

They don't appear to be in the physical file either, and I enabled every metadata-related option I could find in Distiller and PDFMaker.

Let me know if I've missed anything.

--David

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References:
Word Meta Data And PDF Question: From: John Fleming
Re: Word Meta Data And PDF Question: From: dmbrown
Re: Word Meta Data And PDF Question: From: Dick Margulis

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