Aspose.PDF is wrong when set new value for metadata

Aspose.PDF Product Family
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Env

  • Windows 10 .NET 4.7
  • Aspose.PDF for NET 22.12

Q1

Aspose get a wrong result when set a new metadata value for KeyWords, steps:

  • PDF has a metadata KeyWords, its value is DDD
  • Change new value for KeyWords to 444
  • It get a wrong result, it became 444; DDD, the except result should be 444

Q2

Aspose overwrites original Creator and Producer content, and I didn’t actually change them.
Creator became to Aspose Pty Ltd. and Producer became to Aspose.PDF for.NET 22.12.0.

Code

    var doc = new Aspose.Pdf.Document(@"C:\Users\XCL\Desktop\test\source.pdf");
    doc.Info.Title = "111";
    doc.Info.Author = "222";
    doc.Info.Subject = "333";
    doc.Info.Keywords = "444";
    doc.Save(@"C:\Users\XCL\Desktop\test\target.pdf");

Before

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After

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Test Files

test.zip (112.1 KB)

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@xucongli1989

We have logged this problem in our issue tracking system as PDFNET-53367. You will be notified via this forum thread once this issue is resolved. We apologize for your inconvenience.

PdfFileInfo class allows you to set file specific information of a PDF file. Please read the following article for more detail:
Set PDF File Information

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@xucongli1989

This behavior is not a bug, Adobe Acrobat reads keywords not only from the DocumentInfo.Keywords, but from XMP Metadata properties as well (namely, “pdf:keywords” and “dc:subject” properties). To fully replace keywords in the document you may use PdfFileInfo and PdfXmpMetadata, for example as shown here:

using (var docInfo = new PdfFileInfo(@"source.pdf"))
{
    docInfo.Title = "111";
    docInfo.Author = "222";
    docInfo.Subject = "333";
    docInfo.Keywords = "444";

    // Save new DocumentInfo AND update XMP metadata with the same values
    docInfo.SaveNewInfoWithXmp(@"target.pdf");
}

// Update additional metadata key that Adobe Reader uses as a keywords source
using (var xmp = new PdfXmpMetadata())
{
    xmp.BindPdf(@"target.pdf");
    xmp["dc:subject"] = keywords;
    xmp.Save(outputPath);
}