I'm working on a series of form edits, that won't allow me to apply metadata via Properties or Action. I suspect issue might be caused by the documents being over-edited and having multiple signature fields, but thought I'd fire away question on forums either way, as someone might have encountered this issue as well and can confirm it's not supposed to work (e.g. it's feature, not a bug). Workflow and background info of project: Large collection of PDF forms (no source files available, edited in Acrobat over the years and saved and closed again). Most forms contain one or more signature fields. Forms are edited in Acrobat Pro DC. Forms need to have certain properties set (File > Properties). System details: MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Early 2013). Mac OS X El Capitan (10.11.15), Acrobat Pro DC 2015 Release (Continuous) | Version 2015.017.20050 The issue. File > Properties dialog box opening fails on most documents. E.g. no way to access for adding Document Description, Set Open Options, Set Reading language using this dialog box. Note: File > Properties works fine on PDFs I generate myself from source files, so it's not an Acrobat corruption issue (although I have done complete uninstall and system clean-up of all Acrobat file remnants on system). I can confirm the same issue occurs on Windows 10 version of Acrobat, so its 100% related to the PDFs, not Acrobat. The workaround that partially works. Using an Action instead of the Properties dialog box allows me to get into the properties and metadata to some extent and make changes. I seem to be able to set the Title, Open Options, Language, etc. without issues using this work-around. Except for changing the Author field. That seems to be baked into the PDF and not editable, not even through a script (The title fields are mostly empty to start out, but those that were set and had the file name set, can be edited as well using this work around.). Here's the error I see: Anyone encountered this issue? is it expected behaviour? Will be good to know, as I can let my client know whey I can't do certain things to the PDFs. Thanks heaps, Cari
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