Trailer Reference¶

class pdfnaut.objects.trailer.Info[source]¶

Bases: PdfDictionary

Document-level metadata representing the structure described in ISO 32000-2:2020 § 14.3.3 “Document information dictionary”.

Since PDF 2.0, most of the attributes here have been deprecated in favor of their equivalents in the document-level metadata stream (see PdfDocument.xmp_info), with exception of Info.creation_date and Info.modify_date.

__init__(title=None, author=None, subject=None, keywords=None, creator=None, producer=None, creation_date=None, modify_date=None, trapped=None)¶

author: str | None¶: The name of the person who created the document.

creation_date: datetime | None¶: The date and time the document was created, in human-readable form.

creation_date_raw: str | None¶: The date and time the document was created, as a text string.

creator: str | None¶: If the document was converted to PDF from another format (ex. DOCX), the name of the PDF processor that created the original document from which it was converted (ex. Microsoft Word).

keywords: str | None¶: Keywords associated with the document.

modify_date: datetime | None¶: The date and time the document was most recently modified, in human-readable form.

modify_date_raw: str | None¶: The date and time the document was most recently modified, as a text string.

producer: str | None¶: If the document was converted to PDF from another format (ex. PostScript), the name of the PDF processor that converted it to PDF (ex. Adobe Distiller).

subject: str | None¶: The subject or topic of the document.

title: str | None¶: The document’s title.

trapped: Literal['True', 'False', 'Unknown'] | None¶: A value reporting whether the document has been modified to include trapping information (see ISO 32000-2:2020 § 14.11.6 “Trapping support”).