Prevent Insertion of Author Name in Save as PDF

The standard Print dialogue box features a button/menu "PDF" with a "Save as PDF" choice. By default, the user account's full name is inserted in the Author field when using this option. (I shall not comment on Apple's wisdom -- or lack thereof -- in setting such a default.)
Others have asked before how to prevent this behaviour, eg
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and various solutions have been suggested, some more ingenious than others. However, they do not actually answer the question.
I am aware I can use various methods to remove the metadata afterwards, or use an Automator action, or simply delete it before the PDF file is created, but any of them means more, rather than less, work. So my question is simply this:
How can I modify the default and prevent the OS from inserting the full name in the Author field in the first place?
Thanks.

thanks for the reply:
don't know if this some sort of a display redraw issue:
but if I just hit enter I get the file saved as untitled.wav (which is floating in the middle of the screen not in the correct location)
and the file ends up in "My Music Folder" (which I never use, but can't change folders either)
-good grief I hate M$ for their My . . . crap folders
the system is using similar Intel-GMA integrated graphics as my main workstation
the only difference is processors and the chipset is one generation back
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