 | 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 HierarchyPdfTools.Toolbox.InternalNativeBase
PdfTools.Toolbox.InternalNativeObject
PdfTools.Toolbox.PdfMetadata
Namespace: PdfTools.Toolbox.Pdf
Assembly: PdfTools.Toolbox (in PdfTools.Toolbox.dll) Version: 1.4.0+02318d3e3f9645a1305b87026fb971a660079e54
Syntaxpublic 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 Note: The document information dictionary has been superseded by XMP metadata and is deprecated in PDF 2.0.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:
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. |
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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