It also allows editing (and viewing) the following PDF metadata tags: Title, Subject, Author, Creator, Producer and Keywords.ĭownload Master PDF Editor by visiting its downloads page (it's available for CentOS, RedHat, and Ubuntu - I did not try to see if it runs on Debian). It can create, edit (insert text or images), annotate, view, encrypt, and sign PDF documents.

Master PDF Editor is a proprietary application to edit PDF documents on Linux, Windows and macOS. Using Master PDF Editor to edit PDF meta tags on Linux PDFMtEd is a bit weird to run and it uses the old Python 2, but it's lightweight and made using open source tools, while Master PDF Editor is a complete suite for editing PDF files, so it's pretty heavy on system resources, and it's not free and open source software either. Why 2 tools? Because none of these two is even close to perfect in my opinion, so users should decide which best suits their needs.

To edit PDF metadata tags on Linux using a GUI we'll use Master PDF Editor or PDFMtEd.

This article explains how to edit PDF metadata tags on Linux, using either a GUI or from the command line.Įdit PDF metadata tags on Linux using a GUI

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