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Elfwreck · 08-24-2009, 09:02 PM

Acrobat Pro only edits one at a time. (You can use Batch Processing, but it only works to give them all the same metadata, which is pretty useless for title & author.)

For editing swarms of PDFs, I use Arts PDF Workshop, which is a plugin for MS Excel. However, they no longer sell it separately (they used to), and the version I have works on Excel 97 but not Excel 2000 or 2003. (Presumably, the new package deal does.) But it's very pricey for editing a few (i.e. less than several thousand) PDFs.

There's an older post at PlanetPDF that says Photoshop has a way to batch edit PDF metadata; I'll have to try that one. (It may be just another way to put the same metadata in a cluster of files, not useful for naming individual files.)

VeryPDF has a program that looks possible. $38, with a free 30 day trial.

08-24-2009, 09:02 PM	#4
Elfwreck Grand Sorcerer Posts: 5,187 Karma: 25133758 Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: SF Bay Area, California, USA Device: Pocketbook Touch HD3 (Past: Kobo Mini, PEZ, PRS-505, Clié)	Acrobat Pro only edits one at a time. (You can use Batch Processing, but it only works to give them all the same metadata, which is pretty useless for title & author.) For editing swarms of PDFs, I use Arts PDF Workshop, which is a plugin for MS Excel. However, they no longer sell it separately (they used to), and the version I have works on Excel 97 but not Excel 2000 or 2003. (Presumably, the new package deal does.) But it's very pricey for editing a few (i.e. less than several thousand) PDFs. There's an older post at PlanetPDF that says Photoshop has a way to batch edit PDF metadata; I'll have to try that one. (It may be just another way to put the same metadata in a cluster of files, not useful for naming individual files.) VeryPDF has a program that looks possible. $38, with a free 30 day trial.