Forgive me if this question has an obvious answer; perhaps I’m not taking the right approach to the problem.
My goal is to save a version of a pdf, with modified metadata. In most cases, I’ll be removing metadata (setting the author, title, description to blank), though in some cases I’ll be adding information to those fields. I’ve tried both approaches from these StackOverflow answers: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40295264/how-to-add-metadata-to-pdf-document-using-pdfbox That is, I’ve tried creating the metadata via XMPMetadata and using importXMPMetadata(). I’ve also tried using the Document Information object (inputDoc.getDocumentInformation().setCreator("Some meta”);). In both cases, if the field is empty in the original document I’ve loaded, the new value is set without issue. However, if the metadata field already contains a value, the new value is not applied. Is there a way for me to overwrite metadata, or am I approaching this all wrong? Here’s a pdf I was using while testing (it has a title and author set, but no subject): https://www.dropbox.com/s/olk2zhnh47ohtpk/testing.pdf?dl=0 Thanks, in advance, for any insight. -- Matthew Clemente
