Fred,
You wrote (in response to Rebecca Officer's message):
That hit count is deceptive because of the way the search was
specified. The search returns all pages that include the word
"Document" or the word "Settings", not just the ones that have
inappropriate metadata strings.
Use the search specification
"Documents and Settings" +pdf
for a more relevant search result. (A quick visual scan of a
hundred or so result listings showed that all of them included
a pathname that included the user's login name, which was not
the case with the broader search.) But even this narrower search
returns more than 2 million hits, including more than 200,000
documents that deal with some aspect of computer security!
Thanks for your clarification! I updated the search phrase so that it
yields less results.
I actually did not pay attention to the specific number of millions... When
I see so many hits I assume that many thousands (at least) of files serve
well to demonstrate the point, after irrelevant hits are ignored.
In any case, this is just one possible search string out of several.
Additional variations include:
C:\Docume~
C:\Program Files\
Printing C:\
Print Preview - C:\
(with different drives) etc.
These variations depend on the specific PDF creation route used (authoring
tools, drivers, settings), and show that file path may be added to PDFs
even when no metadata is added explicitly (and even when simply printing to
.ps).
My recommendation is therefore to always check/adjust the document
properties of the PDF file before distributing it, regardless of how the
PDF is created.
Shlomo Perets
MicroType, http://www.microtype.com
Training, consulting & add-ons: FrameMaker, Structured FM and Acrobat
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