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How to add document information (title, author, subject, keywords, producer) in PDF documents generated with PDFDoc Scout library

How to define document properties like Producer, Author, Keywords, Subject for PDF documents generated using PDFDoc Scout library: 

Download example source code: pdfdocscout_example_document_info.zip (10,7 KB)

Screenshot (view produced pdf):

screenshot of document properties window for document generated with PDFDoc Scout

' IMPORTANT: In registered full version .Producer field is available only for registered users having additional "Application License"

 ' create PDFDoc object

 Set PDFDoc = CreateObject("PDFDocScout.PDFDocument")

 ' initialize library

 PDFDoc.InitLibrary "demo", "demo"

 

 ' set output filename for PDF document

 PDFDoc.OutputFileName = "pdfdocscout_example_document_info.pdf"

 ' automatically open generated PDF document in default PDF viewer application

 PDFDoc.AutoOpenGeneratedPDF = true



 PDFDoc.DocumentInfo.Author = "Demo Author"

 PDFDoc.DocumentInfo.CreationDate = "1/1/2008"

 PDFDoc.DocumentInfo.Creator = "Demo Creator"

 PDFDoc.DocumentInfo.KeyWords = "Demo KeyWords"

 PDFDoc.DocumentInfo.Producer = "Demo Producer"

 PDFDoc.DocumentInfo.Subject = "Demo Subject"

 PDFDoc.DocumentInfo.Title = "Demo Title"



 ' starts PDF document generation

 PDFDoc.BeginDocument



 ' add text to current page - draw text at (100,100) and rotate at 15 degrees 

 PDFDoc.Page.AddText "Hello, World!", 100, 100, 15 



 ' close pdf document generation

 PDFDoc.EndDocument



 ' disconnect from library

 Set PDFDoc = Nothing

Download example source code: pdfdocscout_example_document_info.zip (10,7 KB)

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