debian-pdfrw/examples/metadata.py

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#!/usr/bin/env python
'''
usage: metadata.py <first.pdf> [<next.pdf> ...]
Creates output.pdf
This file demonstrates two features:
1) Concatenating multiple input PDFs.
2) adding metadata to the PDF.
If you do not need to add metadata, look at subset.py, which
has a simpler interface to PdfWriter.
'''
import sys
import os
import find_pdfrw
from pdfrw import PdfReader, PdfWriter, IndirectPdfDict
inputs = sys.argv[1:]
assert inputs
outfn = 'output.pdf'
writer = PdfWriter()
for inpfn in inputs:
writer.addpages(PdfReader(inpfn.pages)
writer.trailer.Info = IndirectPdfDict(
Title = 'your title goes here',
Author = 'your name goes here',
Subject = 'what is it all about?',
Creator = 'some script goes here',
)
writer.write(outfn)