[
New data was added and other objects and things were
incorporated. It shouldn't be a big difference in size...
]
Actually I noticed that the contents of the file has been modified. When I open the
generated file in Notepad, I can see some ascii values (the
original file has non-printable binary characters .. which is expected).
[
>2) Is it possible to write/change the metadata on the same file
>without having to save it as another file ?
Not with iText, but there are many utilities that can be used
to do modify PDF metadata in place.
]
Are you saying that iText cannot modify just the MetaData without modifying the
Contents. Can you point me to any such APIs that can do this ?
Thanks in advance.
Kishore
-----Original Message-----
From: Leonard Rosenthol [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 1:50 PM
To: Kishore Subramanian; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: [iText-questions] Modifying Metadata
At 1:39 PM -0800 3/19/03, Kishore Subramanian wrote:
>1) Is it possible to write/change the Metadata without affecting the
>contents of the original PDF file ?
Yes, that is what you should be doing...
>I found that after writing the metadata with
>the sample code, the file size is now different. Is it related to
>some encoding scheme on the writer ?
New data was added and other objects and things were
incorporated. It shouldn't be a big difference in size...
>2) Is it possible to write/change the metadata on the same file
>without having to save it as another file ?
Not with iText, but there are many utilities that can be used
to do modify PDF metadata in place.
Leonard
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