Re: Anonymize a pdf

William Bader <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.printing.ghostscript.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
ps2pdf has a -dNoOutputFonts option to vectorize or bitmap fonts.

http://www.ghostscript.com/doc/9.16/Ps2pdf.htm

If you want to ensure that all metadata is gone, you could use gs to rasterize to a bitmap in a format like a ppm that is only data with no comment fields and then write a script to wrap it as a PDF.
William

> Date: Thu, 14 May 2015 12:29:24 +0900
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [gs-devel] Anonymize a pdf
> 
> Dear list,
> 
> Some conferences want anonymous paper.
> 
> Using LaTeX hyperref package it is easy to remove some metadata, like:
> Title, Subject, Author... but in the .pdf stays an annoying metadata
> called "PTEX.Fullbanner." Besides the fonts names are still visible.
> 
> So my question is, using gs it is possible to print a .pdf into
> another .pdf so that:
> - all not strictly necessary metadata is removed
> - the fonts names are replaces with gibberish
> 
> About the last point, all the fonts are embedded subfonts, so the name
> is not important.
> 
> 
> Your faithfully,
> Paolo
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