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daves95694859
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November 8, 2017
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Get Page Metadata from PDF document

  • November 8, 2017
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Hi all

I'm trying to get the Page metadata out of a PDF imported into Illustrator, but haven't been able to find methods that allow me to do that in the Illustrator SDK.

I've managed to get the Document metadata using the AIDocumentSuite::GetDocumentXAP method, but can not find a way of getting hold of the page, let alone extract the page metadata from it. Is this possible using this SDK? Any help would be appreciated.

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    LeoTaro
    Inspiring
    November 8, 2017

    What meta data are you looking for? If you open your pdf in Illustrator and then save as a pdf, is the meta data still there?

    daves95694859
    daves95694859Author
    Inspiring
    November 8, 2017

    We're hoping to add Custom Page metadata (rather than Document) to the PDF exporter of our main application which could then be read by our Illustrator plugin. We have managed to get it written, and we can verify this by looking at the generated PDF in a text editor. When we save the PDF again from Illustrator the metadata is there though it appears to have been encoded in some way as you can't find it in a text editor, but our Importer can still read the Page Metadata. Our Importer and Exporter use the Adobe PDF Library, but I was hoping there would be a way of reading the page metadata with just the Illustrator SDK.

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    LeoTaro
    Inspiring
    November 8, 2017

    Illustrator will compress the pdf output by default. If you turn off the compression options when saving as pdf, you may be able to see your meta data in a text editor.

    So you could achieve what you want to do using the document meta data, but would rather do it with the page meta data?

    There don't seem to be any other functions to get XAP data. I haven't used XAP data before so I don't know anything about it. I assume the page data is not contained in the document data somewhere?

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