setpdfmetadata1

Usage

Overview

setpdfmetadata is tool to add and update the metadata of a PDF file. In particular, it can be used to add outlines (bookmarks) to a document. Furthermore, it can set the document properties (e.g. author, title, keywords, creator, producer).
Note, that all metadata content will be encoded in ISO-8859-1 encoding. It is not (yet) possible to use non-ISO-8859-1 text in the PDF metadata.
The metadata may contain the following commands:

outline Level Page Bookmark

Add a PDF outline at the given level (0=chapter, 1=section, 2=subsection, 3=subsubsection, 4=paragraph, ...) and pointing to the given page number. Bookmark denotes the label text.

author Author

Sets the document author to the given value.

title Title

Sets the document title to the given value.

title Subject

Sets the document subject to the given value.

keywords Keywords

Sets the document keywords to the given value.

creator Creator

Sets the document creator to the given value.

producer Producer

Sets the document producer to the given value.

Arguments

The following arguments have to be provided:

Input PDF

The input PDF file name.

Output PDF

The output PDF file name.

Examples

A setpdfmetadata usage example:

setpdfmetadata MyDocument.pdf MyMetadata.meta MyDocument-Updated.pdf

A metadata example:

outline 1 1 Chapter 1
outline 2 2 Section 1.1
outline 2 4 Section 1.2
outline 1 6 Chapter 2
author John Smith
title An Example Document
keywords Example, PDF, setpdfmetadata