Print - Save as PDF

Question

In the Print dialog, one of the options is to Save as PDF. After selecting this option, in the following window, there is an Author field filled in with the user name as the default. How does one make this Author field default to a "blank?"

Answer 1

Create a Print Plugin with Automator with the following actions
Run Applescript on run {input, parameters}
activate
set newFileName to POSIX path of (choose file name with prompt "Save PDF as…" default location path to documents folder) & ".pdf"
return {newFileName, POSIX path of input}
end runRun Shell Script--Set to pass as argumentsmv "$2" "$1"
echo "$1"Set PDF Metadata
You can set this to show this action when workflow runs in the Options. That will allow you to set specific metadata. If you want to set other defaults, fill them in and check the box for the metadata. If you don't want to set metadata at all, but want to clear the Title, check the Title box and leave the field blank. With this method, only the title gets set.
I don't have Adobe Acrobat, so I'm just using the mdls command in Terminal to look at what gets set in the metadata. If this doesn't do what you want, I can't find another way.
Edit: I didn't do any error checking to see if the file exists. The Choose file would if you added the extension. However, that would double the extension since I automatically add it in the applescript.
Message was edited by: Barney-15E