Creating PDFs with Customized Metadata

In the discussion of RTF and HTML output, we already saw some ODS option statements that inserted metadata information into the document properties area of the RTF output file or the <HEAD> area of the HTML output file. Similar options exist for PDF output as well.

The options that are available with ODS PDF are shown in the following code snippet:

ODS PDF FILE="metadata.pdf" AUTHOR="Author Name"
    SUBJECT="Subject" TITLE="Document Title"
    KEYWORDS="ODS, PDF, Metadata Information";
  *. . .SAS Code to test . . .;
ODS PDF CLOSE;

The procedure that we run is irrelevant, as the metadata information is only visible in the document properties of the PDF file, as shown in Figure 5.14. To review the document properties ...

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