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Subject:Re: Word Meta Data And PDF Question From:Peter Gold <peter -at- highsoft -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 01 May 2003 07:40:30 -0500
Try creating the PDF in ASCII, rather than binary format, then open the
ASCII file in a text editor. This should expose all content.
>> John Fleming wrote:
>>
>>> How much, if any, of Word's meta data gets transfered to the
>>> PDF version of a Word file when the PDF file is created?
>>>
>>> Anybody here...know where I could find it?
>>>
>>
>>
>> Well, I just populated every single editable field in Word's Properties
>> dialog box, set the Convert Doc Info option in PDFMaker, and checked the
>> properties of the resulting output PDF.
>>
>> The only ones that showed up were Title, Subject, Author, and Keywords. None
>> of the zillion optional properties came through.
Regards,
Peter Gold
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