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    Can people find orginal author of pdf file?

    /t5/acrobat-discussions/can-people-find-orginal-author-of-pdf-file/td-p/10439740 Mar 17, 2019 Mar 17, 2019

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    Can people find orginal author of pdf file? I created pdf file (by printing word doc in pdf format), saved in my home computer, then use free metadata editor to change author/creator of the file, but can people (with computer knowledge) can still find out who the original author was? (if not the name, the computer used or IP address, etc.)? Thanks.

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    Engaged , Mar 17, 2019 Mar 17, 2019 margueritek • Engaged , Mar 17, 2019 Mar 17, 2019

    The Document Information Dictionary (/Info) contains a number of optional entries, which Word probably fills in. Title, Author, Subject, Creator, and others. These can be seen by looking at Document Properties (Ctrl-D in Windows)