PDF Meta Information Commands

The following command line arguments to the PDF Chart Creator all set some aspect of meta information which can be stored within a PDF document. These items of information are usually available/displayable through the PDF viewer:

  -Author
Parameters: name - specifies the name (maximum of 256 characters) of the person who created the PDF document.
Notes:
  • If spaces are required in the name then put quotes around the name text.

  •   -Creator
    Parameters: name - specifies the name (maximum of 256 characters) of the application that created the PDF, or, if the content of the PDF was converted from another form it would normally be the name of the application that created the original content.
    Notes:
  • If spaces are required in the name then put quotes around the name text.

  •   -Producer
    Parameters: name - specifies the name (maximum of 256 characters) of the application that converted the document from its native format to PDF.
    Notes:
  • The name of the application that converted the document from its native format to PDF.
  • If spaces are required in the name then put quotes around the name text.
  • If this item is not set then some applications that can manipulate and re-write the PDF (such as Adobe Acrobat) may not be able to save the file. We recommend that you always set the producer information.
  • Also, if this item is not set then it would appear that in some versions of Adobe Reader the document information dialog does not display the document dimensions, encoding etc.
  • NB Due to the issues outlined above, as of version 1.2 this attribute is set to the default text "PDF Chart Creator by Utility Warrior (http://www.UtilityWarrior.com)" - you can of course change this to whatever you want.

  •   -Title
    Parameters: text - specifies the PDF document's title (maximum of 256 characters).
    Notes:
  • If spaces are required in the title text then put quotes around the title text.

  •   -Subject
    Parameters: text - specifies the PDF document's subject (maximum of 256 characters).
    Notes:
  • If spaces are required in the subject text then put quotes around the subject text.

  •   -Keywords
    Parameters: text - specifies the list of keywords associated with the PDF document (maximum of 256 characters).
    Notes:
  • If spaces are required in the keyword text then put quotes around the keyword text.

  •   -CreationDate
    Parameters: None
    Notes: Sets the date that the PDF document was created using the current local time of the PC.