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! 

Inspired By Tacos4Life, PDFS4LIFE

Last week, for lunch, I took my family to Tacos4Life. I ordered their delicious Korean BBQ steak Tacos and enjoyed every bite of it. As I sat there enjoying the summer atmosphere and the food, I couldn't help but admire their mission to "Eat a Meal. Give a Meal". Basically, for every taco, rice bowl, quesadilla, salad or nachos you enjoy, $0.22 is donated to Feed My Starving Children. Meal 4 Meal.

That amount might not seem like much on its own but with every meal purchased, they have donated over 10 MILLION meals to children in need.

What Tacos4Life has achieved has really inspired me to create the PDFS4LIFE initiative. I asked myself, what if a percentage of every All-About-PDF sale was donated to a similar cause. That too could make a difference regardless of how small it seems. As the Dalai Lama once said:

Children from Sani village having lunch

"If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito."

After our lunch, I WhatsApped my family and friends on how best to approach this and landed on an idea from my mother who lives in Sani (Nkhotakota), Malawi.

She suggested to start off by donating 5% of every sale to a village nursery school where she volunteers. The nursery school is operated by St Mary's Anglican Church and runs almost entirely on volunteers and donations. The nursery school not only teaches the children from the surrounding villages, they also provide clothing and meals for them. It is not an exaggeration to say that for most of the children, the food they are given at the nursery is the only food they see that day.

Together with the church, we have now set up a dedicated bank account for PDFS4LIFE and we will be donating 5% of all our All-About-PDF sales to them on a monthly basis.

This is a cause that I am very passionate about and I can't wait to see what a difference it makes to the children of Sani, Nkhotakota.

For detailed information about this initiative, please see our dedicated page here.

Introducing All-About-PDF Subscription Licensing

One of the main reasons we decided to create All-About-PDF was to offer a PDF toolkit application that people could download, buy and use without having to worry about yet another subscription payment. In bucking the industry trend and offering a single perpetual license cost, where buying a license means that you own the software forever, coupled with our ease of use and powerful feature-set, our offering has become very popular.

We have been getting a lot feedback from existing and potential users and there is a question that keeps popping up and that is:

how come we do not offer a subscription licensing model and will we ever offer one in the future?

Well, the thing we care more about than not forcing users into a paying a monthly fee to use our software, is giving users a choice. Whilst we may not be in favor of subscription plans for software, we can also acknowledge that there are users out there that prefer this model of payment.

We are therefore pleased to announce that, starting today, you can choose to pay for All-About-PDF in two ways:

Perpetual Licensing: as before, we will continue to offer a perpetual license for the price listed on the pricing page. Once purchased, you 100% own that version of All-About-PDF forever and are entitled to free support and upgrades (new features and bug fixes) for 12 months.

Subscription Licensing: With this newly introduced model, instead of paying a single price of $79.99 (as of writing this article) for the perpetual license, you only have to pay $7.99 per month to use All-About-PDF. Once you decide you no longer need to use the software, you can cancel your subscription and the software will cease to work.

We are very excited to be able to offer both the perpetual and subscription models to our All-About-PDF users. To get started and make your choice, head over to our pricing page.

Save Time By Converting PDFs to MS Word Or Other Formats Using Watch Folders

If you spend a lot of time convert PDF files to other file formats such as Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, JPG and more, then you know how tedious it can be.

There are of course many tools that you can use to carry out PDF file conversion but almost all of them require you to either manually upload the files and then download the results or open the software on your computer, select the files and then run the conversion process.

When you have to do this more than a few times a day, week or month, it can become a tiresome chore.

Watch Folders To The Rescue!

In a nutshell, Watch Folders allow you to convert PDF files to other format by just dropping them into a folder

You can use Watch Folders by defining one or more folders that All-About-PDF monitors and what conversions to automatically carry out as files are added. Once the Watch Folder is defined, you don’t even need to open the app to convert the files; you just drop it into the Watch Folder.

Setting up Watch Folders couldn’t be simpler.

1. From the application’s main window, click on the three dots in the top right side to open the menu

2. Select Watch Folders

3. Hit the Add (+) button to create your Watch Folder

4. Select the folder you would like All-About-PDF to monitor

5. Specify the filter you would like to use. The default is *.pdf however you can use any filter as long as it has the .pdf extension

6. Select the conversion actions that you would like to occur when a file matching your filter is added to the Watch Folder.

7. Select folder where the conversion output should be placed. This folder cannot be the same as the Watch Folder.

8. You may also specify if you would like All-About-PDF to delete the original PDF file in the Watch Folder and whether or not to overwrite any existing files in the Output folder.

9. Once saved, the Watch is live and you can begin dropping it like its hot!

To get started with Watch Folders and more, download All-About-PDF today!