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PDF File Comments

The following comments are supported for PDF files:

Value Meaning
CMNT_SZARTIST [0] Person who created the image. Corresponds to the Author key in Document Information dictionary.
CMNT_SZSOFTWARE [9] Name and version of software package used to create the PDF file.
If you are using the nag version of LTKRN, this comment is fixed and cannot be changed. Corresponds to the Producer key in the Document Information dictionary.
CMNT_SZTITLE [175] Title of the image.
CMNT_SUBJECT [263] Subject of the document. This will sometimes have entries that are also in CMNT_KEYWORDS.
CMNT_KEYWORDS [264] Keywords, separated by comma or semicolon. Note that the space characters (if present), are part of the keyword.
CMNT_CREATOR [265] The name of the application that created the original file used as a source for the PDF file.
CMNT_CREATIONDATE [266] Date and time the file was originally created (YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS[+/-hh:mm]).
CMNT_MODIFICATIONDATE [267] Date and time of the last file modification (YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS[+/-hh:mm]).

The PDF comments come from the Document Information Dictionary stored in the Info PDF object. The object is optional and there is only one such object per file. Therefore, all the pages in the PDF file will have the same comments.

The two date comments (CMNT_CREATIONDATE and CMNT_MODIFICATIONDATE) have an optional "+/-hh:mm" suffix indicating the local time zone. The suffix will either be +hh:mm or -hh:mm, depending on whether the local time is ahead or behind UTC. For example:

CMNT_CREATOR and CMNT_SZSOFTWARE seem a bit confusing because they both seem to represent the name of the software that created the PDF file. But they are slightly different. For example, if the PDF file was created by converting a DOCX file created in Microsoft Word, then:

This information can also be obtained using L_ReadFileMetaDataItems or L_ExtractXMPMetadata.

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