10.4: Generate PDFs without embedded author information

Feb 12, '07 07:30:03AM

Contributed by: moonhawk

I'm submitting what is supposed to be an anonymous review for a paper. I wrote up the review in a text file and generated a PDF from it (using Print » PDF » Save as PDF...) only to find out that the author info was emdedded in the PDF metadata. I thought there would be a free tool to modify PDF metadata in Mac OS X, but I seem to have been wrong.

The solution: Instead of using Save as PDF from the PDF pop-up meu, use the Compress PDF option instead. A side effect of this workflow is that the author info does not get embedded in the metadata.

[robg adds: I used Adobe Reader to confirm that this works -- the author data is definitely included with the normal Save as PDF, but not when using Compress.]

Comments (8)


Mac OS X Hints
http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=2007020711370294