NAME

setpdfmetadata —

PDF Metadata Updater

SYNOPSIS

setpdfmetadata [Input PDF] [Metadata] [Output PDF]

DESCRIPTION

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

AUTHORS

Thomas Dreibholz
https://www.uni-due.de/~be0001/netperfmeter
mailto://dreibh@iem.uni-due.de