Document properties in exported PDF

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#1

When I EXPORT AS PDF, Writer is creating an author as part of the PDF document properties. Ironically, this author is an city government agency that I engaged with long ago, before I even used LO. So conceivably an author was embedded in some PDF or DOCX file that came my way and maybe I opened it recently for some reason(?).

But I can’t figure out where it is embedded in LO Writer. It is not in the ODT document properties. I cannot find a setting in TOOLS > OPTIONS. When I export, I have de-selected all options under GENERAL and STRUCTURE. (I had hoped “tagged pdf (add document structure)” might be the source but it does not appear so.)

I own PDF authoring software (Nitro Pro) so I can change PDF document properties. Now that I know this is happening, I’m trying to remember to look for it.

But how can I make LO stop presenting this extra nuisance? Where is this setting that is adding “Dept. of Buildings” as the author of my documents?

Many thanks,
Jeanne

#2

From which file format, ODT vs. DOCX?

Check setting:

Tools > Options > LibreOffice > User data > [address|data for document properties].

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Operating system and LibreOffice version. Thank you.

#3

Thanks for trying. I’m talking only about documents born in LibreOffice, never a DOCX version, not built on an old document.

Every line in the dialog box you reference is blank. I tried DEselecting “Use data for document properties” but that didn’t work. Even tho there is no author in the ODT file properties, the PDF that LO exports shows Dept. of Buildings as author.

LibreOffice Writer 24.8.6.2 (X86_64)
Windows 11 Professional

#4

May be , if the document is based in a template, this information is provided by the template.

  • Have you Reset the properties of the document in File > Properties (tab General)?
  • Are you sure the tag is “author”, not “Publisher” File > Properties (tab Description)?

Can you post a blank odt document with the problem ?

#5

The simplest way to fix your document is to click File > Properties > General and click the button Reset Properties, then Save

Whatever name you have in Tools > Options > LibreOffice > User Data will become the new Author in the exported pdf. If there is no name entered in Tools > Options > LibreOffice > User Data then the Author name will be blank.

It is the name of the initial creator of the file that is saved in the file, even if it was just a blank document. Resetting the properties makes LibreOffice take the current name from user data.

#6

bantoniof:
“Dept. of Buildings” is the author, not publisher, in the PDF exported from ODT, but not in the ODT file.

But your first suggestion hit the spot. Re-setting properties resulted in being able to export a clean PDF–even tho all of those properties were blank.

But what does this mean going forward? Every time I start a new ODT or pick up an old one to work on (or just export to PDF), I have to go click that button just in case?

I’m grateful to have made this much progress, but I’d dearly like to better understand the root of it. Never has the Dept of Buildings authored a file in LibreOffice or any other program on this computer. I cannot rule out that at some point many years ago I might have opened a DOCX file from the Dept. of Buildings, but that almost certainly would have been in Word, not LO, on the computer I retired in 2023. And maybe I edited such a file in Word years ago.

It still seems odd that that could have gotten embedded into LO in this manner.

So I do thank you for your guidance so far, and I’m still listening for any further insights.

#7

Earnest AI: User Data is also completely blank. There is nothing on any line in User Data or in the document properties. Clean as a whistle.

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