How To Edit PDF Properties

When you view a PDF document, you can get information about it, such as the Author, Title, Date Created, Subject, and Keywords. Some of these properties are set by the person that created the document, and the PDF application generates others.

You can view these properties in applications such as Adobe Acrobat by selecting Properties from the File menu.

You will likely notice that when you view these properties in most applications, they are all read-only and therefore cannot be modified.

So how do you modify some or all of these PDF properties? Even more important is how do you change these properties for multiple PDF documents? With All-About-PDF, it couldn’t be simpler!

Editing PDF properties is a simple task with All-About-PDF

Say, for example, we have 100 PDF documents that we would like to change the document's Author, Date Created, and Producer properties. 

  1. First, make sure that you have downloaded and installed the latest version of All-About-PDF.

  2. Open the application from the Windows Start menu and click on the Attributes button.

  3. From the Attributes window, select the PDF file that you would like to edit. We want to process multiple documents; therefore, we will change the file name to use a wildcard notation (e.g. *.pdf).

  4. You can specify the Output folder where the processed documents will be saved.

  5. Select the Author, Producer, and Date Created checkboxes and enter the values we want to set them to.

  6. Hit the Go button to begin processing the PDF documents

  7. In a few seconds, All-About-PDF will update the selected PDF document properties to your specified values.

Have you ever needed to update the properties of your PDF documents? Download All-About-PDF today and give this a try!