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https://github.com/arrufat/pdftag
A simple metadata editor for PDFs for Linux and Windows
https://github.com/arrufat/pdftag
gtk linux metadata metadata-editor pdf poppler vala windows
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A simple metadata editor for PDFs for Linux and Windows
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/arrufat/pdftag
- Owner: arrufat
- License: gpl-3.0
- Created: 2017-02-08T10:08:05.000Z (almost 8 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2021-04-03T17:28:30.000Z (almost 4 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-01-21T00:07:06.716Z (2 days ago)
- Topics: gtk, linux, metadata, metadata-editor, pdf, poppler, vala, windows
- Language: Vala
- Homepage:
- Size: 134 KB
- Stars: 66
- Watchers: 4
- Forks: 5
- Open Issues: 2
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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README
# Pdftag
A simple metadata editor for PDFs
## Introduction
The main goal of Pdftag is to provide a simple and usable solution to edit metadata found in PDFs.
Other more complex solutions exist to manipulate PDFs, but they may have dependencies on Java and may be not completely free.
This project makes use of the [poppler] library for all the PDF information reading and writing.
It is written in [Vala] and [GTK+], meaning it is fast and has a small memory footprint.
## Features
Pdftag supports editing the following PDF tags:
- Title
- Author
- Subject
- Keywords
- Producer
- Creator
- Creation date
- Modification date
It also displays useful non-editable information:
- PDF format
- Number of pages
## Compiling and installing
To build Pdftag you need the following dependencies (including development files):
- meson (build only)
- ninja (build only)
- vala (build only)
- gtk3
- poppler-glib
Then run
```
meson build --prefix=/usr/local (or your preferred installation prefix)
ninja -C build
ninja -C build install
```
[poppler]:https://poppler.freedesktop.org/
[Vala]:https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Vala/
[GTK+]:https://www.gtk.org/