Metadata Class

Represents the metadata of a document or an object in a document.

For document level metadata, all changes are reflected in both, XMP metadata and document info dictionary depending on the conformance of the document.

Inheritance Hierarchy

SystemObject
  PdfTools.FourHeights.PdfToolbox.InternalNativeBase
    PdfTools.FourHeights.PdfToolbox.InternalNativeObject
      PdfTools.FourHeights.PdfToolbox.PdfMetadata

Namespace: PdfTools.FourHeights.PdfToolbox.Pdf
Assembly: PdfTools.FourHeights.PdfToolbox (in PdfTools.FourHeights.PdfToolbox.dll) Version: 4.4.6+c8104d9b5f50644b2c93d424e62edbf40828fde7

Syntax

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public class Metadata : NativeObject

The Metadata type exposes the following members.

Properties

	Name	Description
	Author	The name of the person who created the document or resource. This property corresponds to the "dc:creator" entry in the XMP metadata and to the "Author" entry in the document information dictionary.
	CreationDate	The date and time the document or resource was originally created. This property corresponds to the "xmp:CreateDate" entry in the XMP metadata and to the "CreationDate" entry in the document information dictionary.
	Creator	The original application that created the document. The name of the first known tool used to create the document or resource. This property corresponds to the "xmp:CreatorTool" entry in the XMP metadata and to the "Creator" entry in the document information dictionary.
	CustomEntries	The custom entries in the document information dictionary The standard entries "Title", "Author", "Subject", "Keywords", "CreationDate", "ModDate", "Creator", "Producer" and "Trapped" are not included in the map. Any attempt to set a standard entry through this map will result in an error. To get or set standard entries use the corresponding properties instead. Note: The document information dictionary has been superseded by XMP metadata and is deprecated in PDF 2.0.
	Keywords	Keywords associated with the document or resource. Keywords can be separated by: carriage return / line feed comma semicolon tab double space This property corresponds to the "pdf:Keywords" entry in the XMP metadata and to the "Keywords" entry in the document information dictionary. Setting this property also sets the XMP property dc:subject accordingly.
	ModificationDate	The date and time the document or resource was most recently modified. This property corresponds to the "xmp:ModifyDate" entry in the XMP metadata and to the "ModDate" entry in the document information dictionary.
	Producer	The application that created the PDF If the document was converted to PDF from another format, the name of the PDF processor that converted it to PDF. This property corresponds to the "pdf:Producer" entry in the XMP metadata and to the "Producer" entry in the document information dictionary.
	Subject	The subject of the document or resource. This property corresponds to the "dc:description" entry in the XMP metadata and to the "Subject" entry in the document information dictionary.
	Title	The title of the document or resource. This property corresponds to the "dc:title" entry in the XMP metadata and to the "Title" entry in the document information dictionary.
	Xmp	The XMP metadata The XMP metadata stream or if there is none. The stream is read-only. To set the XMP stream of a metadata object use the method Document.CreateMetadata instead.

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Methods

	Name	Description
	Copy	Copy a metadata object Copy a metadata object from an input document to the given targetDocument. The returned object is associated with the target document but not (yet) used as the document metadata. The object can be used either as document metadata using Metadata or as page metadata using Metadata.
	Create	Create a new metadata object The newly created metadata object is associated with the target document but not (yet) used as the document metadata. The object can be used either as document metadata using Metadata or as page metadata using Metadata.
	Equals	(Inherited from NativeObject)
	GetHashCode	(Inherited from NativeObject)

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Reference

PdfTools.FourHeights.PdfToolbox.Pdf Namespace