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Title: Can not set copyright tag
Post by: mostwanted on January 04, 2014, 08:59:19 AM

hi everybody,

should this work on the linux command line?

exiftool -copyright=Lorem filename.pdf

i get the following message:

0 image files updated
1 image files unchanged

kind regards

roland

Title: Re: Can not set copyright tag
Post by: Phil Harvey on January 04, 2014, 09:55:11 AM

Hi Roland,

The "Copyright" tag is EXIF, but EXIF isn't supported in PDF files.

Instead of Copyright, I would suggest writing XMP-dc:Rights (or just "Rights") to a PDF file.

BTW, this problem is discussed in FAQ number 23 (https://exiftool.org/faq.html#Q23).

- Phil

Title: Re: Can not set copyright tag
Post by: mostwanted on January 04, 2014, 01:06:36 PM

hi phil,

thank you for your help/answer - and of course for your great tool! :)

kind regards

roland

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