RE: Identifying the source to generate a PDF?

["Spreadbury, David " <David -dot- Spreadbury -at- tellabs -dot- com>]

We create are docs with FrameMaker and in Acrobat 5, in the Document
Summary (File > Document Property > Summary [Ctrl+D]) there is a line
that displays

'Creator: FrameMaker 7.0'

I went and looked at, even recreated it two different ways, a PDF
created in Word2003 and the same line states:

'Creator: PScript5.dll Version 5.2.2'

So unless they are opening the PDF in a text editor and looking for some
specific SGML tag/code, I can't see a way to tell. Which doesn't mean
there isn't. 

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Lippincott Richard J Contr ESC/NI
Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 7:57 AM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: Identifying the source to generate a PDF?


Those of you who know me know that this is difficult for me, but I'm
going to cut directly to the short version of a long story.

I'm trying to get some manuals published, and we've shipped PDF files to
the government printing agency responsible for the job. They're balking,
for a number of reasons.

One of the reasons floored me. The responsible manager claimed that by
examining the PDF file, the print agency determined that the documents
had been produced in MS Word. The manager's beef is that the contract
requirements are that the documents be produced using tagged SGML.

So far as I know, there is no way to examine a PDF file and evaluate
what word processor or DTP package was used to create the document. 

Am I correct? 

If there is a way to make the determination, what is it?

(Oh, BTW, in fact we DID use SGML, the documents were produced using
Epic/Arbortext and a government approved DTD.)

Thanks...

--Rick Lippincott
  Bedford, MA
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