GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 681828
Missing writeback support for PDF files
Last modified: 2021-05-26 22:25:42 UTC
This would be useful for e.g. GNOME Documents, since you can now modify the title of a document from the UI. I could see this being used at least for Title and Author information.
I think it could be useful for Evince also. Right now it doesn't have the ability to change the metadata of a pdf.
Looking at the Poppler API which we use, there doesn't seem to be a way to update the data before writing a new file sadly. I guess we would have to use another library to do this.
(In reply to comment #2) > Looking at the Poppler API which we use, there doesn't seem to be a way to > update the data before writing a new file sadly. There is some work on adding such functionality to poppler: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36653 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71213
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