Re: [MLUG] how to change meta-data in PDF files

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Mike Miller wrote:

> I have Acrobat on Windows, so it would be easy to open a PDF in Acrobat 
> and change the Title.  But I have 450 PDF files that don't have titles 
> in them and I have a list of filenames with the titles I want to insert. 
> Also, I hate Windows and would prefer to do this with Linux.  So it 
> would be nice if I had a Linux program that would do something like 
> this:
>
> prog -T "This Is The Title To Be Inserted" filename.pdf
>
> Can ghostscript do that?  Will anything else under Linux do that?  I 
> don't want to change anything else in the file, just the Title.  I might 
> try to do that with the Author field too.


I think these both will do it:

pdftk:
http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk/

mbtPDFasm:
http://thierry.schmit.free.fr/dev/mbtPdfAsm/enMbtPdfAsm2.html

Mike

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