> On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 5:47 AM, intrigeri <intrig...@debian.org> wrote: > Robert Haist: > > For PDFs you can use exiftool from the libimage-exiftool-perl to remove > > metadata: > > exiftool -all= example.pdf > > This works for me. > > Does this address the problem (metadata in embedded images) that > triggered us from removing this functionality from MAT?
Assuming the documentation is correct, the manpage for exiftool states: > 3) Changes to PDF files are reversible because the original information is never actually deleted from the file. > So ExifTool alone may not be used to securely edit metadata in PDF files. that sounds like a "NO". :-( --stephen -- Stephen Dowdy - Systems Administrator - NCAR/RAL 303.497.2869 - sdo...@ucar.edu - http://www.ral.ucar.edu/~sdowdy/
