Suppress auto-generated "Producer" PDF Metadata

Aspose.Words Product Family
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Is there really no way to suppress the “Producer” metadata in the PDF resulting from the conversion with “Aspose.Words for Java”? It currently leaks the Aspose version deployed on our system. I understand that you may want to output this version by default (advertising your product, troubleshooting/reproducing issues in generated PDFs), but given that this is a paid product, there really should be an option to override this behavior.

Background: We are not allowed to leak internals of our application (potentially vulnerable library versions etc.) to end users.

(I tried to search the forum for similar questions but got a “502 Bad Gateway” error)

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@PDFfail You can specify PdfSaveOptions.setExportGeneratorName() to false to disable adding name and version of Aspose.Words into produced files.

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@alexey.noskov: Thanks. It seems that I found some obsolete documentation somewhere that says this is not possible.

It seems this option was introduced in Aspose Words for Java 21.8 in “WORDSNET-21015 Request to Remove Generator or Producer Name”. Time for an upgrade, as we are still on 20.12.

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@PDFfail Yes, you are right the feature has been introduced in 21.8 version of Aspose.Words.