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setpdfmetadata(1) General Commands Manual setpdfmetadata(1) NAME setpdfmetadata -- PDF Metadata Updater SYNOPSIS setpdfmetadata input_pdf metadata_file 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 meta- data. 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. subject 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. metadata_file The metadata 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.nntb.no/~dreibh/netperfmeter mailto://dreibh@simula.no setpdfmetadata November 14, 2025 setpdfmetadata(1)
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