[PDFBOX-4641] Keywords created using PDFBox are not visible in Acrobat

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.8.16, 2.0.16
• Fix Version/s: 1.8.17, 2.0.17, 3.0.0 PDFBox
• Component/s: Documentation
• Environment: Windows 7, Eclipse 4.2.2, Acrobat Pro 11.0.10
• Assignee: Tilman Hausherr
• Reporter: Gilad Denneboom
• Created: 01/Sep/19 20:11
• Updated: 30/Jun/20 06:13
• Resolved: 03/Sep/19 16:55

Description

Setting new keywords using PDFBox 2.0.16 inserts the data into the file (confirmed via the PDF Debugger and running a script in Acrobat), but the keywords are not displayed in the Acrobat GUI. This might be a bug of Acrobat itself, but it will be good to know why this is happening, and whether it can be solved.

 

Attached are a blank sample file created in Acrobat, with no metadata, a java file with the code I used, and the result of running it on that file. When I open the edited file in Acrobat (11.0.10) the Properties window is still empty. However, running the following code from the JS Console does print out the correct output:

this.info.Keywords

Output:

NEW KEYWORDS

 

I'm also attaching the same file after I've added keywords to in Acrobat, so the internal structure could be compared with what PDFBox does. I didn't see much of a difference, but maybe I missed something.