Exiftool: "Author keeps the "" - quotes

Peter2 · Post by **Peter2** » Thu Sep 11, 2008 7:33 am

I use exiftool with this code:

exiftool.exe -Author="I am the test author" "Test.pdf"

The result in PDF is that the "author is the only data which keeps it quotes:

"I am the test author"

Is this correct? Is there a way to avoid this?

Peter

Peter2 · Post by **Peter2** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 8:22 pm

No exiftool-specialists here?

Peter

oops66 · Post by **oops66** » Fri Sep 19, 2008 3:49 pm

Peter2 wrote:No exiftool-specialists here?
Peter

Hello,
FYI: I'm not a specialist but I have tried your ExifTool command line under my system (linux: Ubuntu 8.04 + Exiftool V7.43 perl + My default PDF reader: Evince v2.22.2 ) and I have not "your quotes problems" even for the Author item:

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exiftool -Author="I am the test author" "test.pdf"

The result in the PDF via Evince, is without quotes:

I am the test author

Peter2 · Post by **Peter2** » Fri Sep 19, 2008 5:01 pm

Maybe a Windows probelm? I just looked at a PDF, made from Word with PDF-Creator, where the "author in PDF" was taken from "author in Word": In Word no quotes, but in PDF

Peter