user name embedded in exported PDF?

[Wayne Brissette]

>On 3/8/06, John Oram <john at oram.com> wrote:
>> Hey Joel-
>>
>> Tried that -- it corrupts the file even with BBEdit.
>>
>> Is it OG or OS X doing it?
>>
>> -John
>>
>Hi,
>
>While PDF may store content as ascii, its directory has pointers to
>the byte position in the file of the parts of the PDF. So you must not
>change the length of the text when editing it. Overwriting your name
>with the same amount of spaces might work though.
>
>Peter

What does work is using a hexeditor:

<http://www.ex-cinder.com/hexeditor.html>

I tried this on some test files and they all worked out fine. Just do a
search and then replace them with either all spaces or zeros or
something else. But as mentioned it seems the file must remain the same
length. 

I tried coming up with an AppleScript that would be easier, but decided
that since it wasn't a property of the document I could mess with and
since I would have to do binary reading and writing of the file, it
wasn't any easier than the hexeditor option. 

Wayne