Store Export settings along with PDF and update PDF with the same settings
I find it hard to impossible to tell the export settings of a PDF file just from the file. Am I missing where to look? I would like to have
- Write settings as human readable text into the metadata of PDF Files, when they are exported
- Export settings as Export preset, stored along with PDF (as metadata within the file)
- Import the Export Presets by pointing at an existing PDF File (with this metadata available)
- Update any PDF File (given the export settings-metadata are available) with the same settings by pointing to the the File that is to be updated
Michael
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Paul Johnson
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It's annoying that this information isn't directly saved in the PDF in a convenient way.
BUT IT COULD BE!
And if it were, that could enable extremely useful features in PDF creating apps. I've suggested an Indesign/Illustrator feature: add ability for a PDF to include a record of the settings used to create it. If this existed, the source app could then be able to access this info from a PDF so that a new version could easily be created with the same output settings.
(Feature request is called "Include PDF Export Settings in PDF Files" in Acrobat feature request area and "Examine an Existing PDF and Use Its Exporting Settings" in the Indesign area).
This would require features added to both the CSS app AND the PDF file format (to allow the info to be saved in the PDF file).