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jonathan webley · Post by **jonathan webley** » Fri May 08, 2009 3:12 pm

PDF files have properties such as author and title. Is there any way of setting these via LaTeX?

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Post by **josephwright** » Fri May 08, 2009 3:17 pm

hyperref does this nicely, or you can of course do things directly with the primitives.

\usepackage[
  pdfauthor = {Some Person},
  pdftitle = {A long title, perhaps}
  pdfsubject =  {Some rubbish I've made up}
]{hyperref}

This can also be set using \hypersetup after loading the package.

jonathan webley · Post by **jonathan webley** » Fri May 08, 2009 3:50 pm

Thanks, Joseph!

pdfsubject isn't recognised, but using hypersetup works great.

Post by **josephwright** » Fri May 08, 2009 4:52 pm

I forget the exact option names. You can set various things, which are all listed in the hyperref notes somewhere.

phi · Post by **phi** » Fri May 08, 2009 8:22 pm

pdfsubject is correct, but you've forgotten a comma.

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