XMP is a file labeling technology that lets you embed metadata into files themselves during the content creation process. With an XMP enabled application, your workgroup can capture meaningful information about a project (such as titles and descriptions, searchable keywords, and up-to-date author and copyright information) in a format that is easily understood by your team as well as by software applications, hardware devices, and even file formats.
In the Spire.PDF Version 3.6.135 and above, we add a new feature to read, set and load an existing XMP data from XML documents. This article presents how to set XMP Metadata while creating a PDF document.
Code Snippet:
Step 1: Initialize a new instance of PdfDocument class.
PdfDocument doc = new PdfDocument();
Step 2: Get XMP metadata from PDF document.
XmpMetadata meta = doc.XmpMetaData;
Step 3: Set author, create data, creator, keywords and etc. to metadata.
meta.SetAuthor("E-iceblue");
meta.SetCreateDate(DateTime.Now);
meta.SetCreator("Spire.PDF");
meta.SetCustomProperty("Field", "NewValue");
meta.SetKeywords("XMP");
meta.SetProducer("E-icenlue Co,.Ltd");
meta.SetSubject("XMP Metadata");
meta.SetTitle("Set XMP Metadata in PDF");
Step 4: Save the file.
doc.SaveToFile("XMP.pdf", FileFormat.PDF);
Output:
To view metadata in a PDF document, open it with Acrobat or Acrobat Reader and select ‘Document Properties’ in the File menu.
Full Code:
using Spire.Pdf;
using Spire.Pdf.Xmp;
using System;
namespace SetXMPMetadata
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
PdfDocument doc = new PdfDocument();
XmpMetadata meta = doc.XmpMetaData;
meta.SetAuthor("E-iceblue");
meta.SetCreateDate(DateTime.Now);
meta.SetCreator("Spire.PDF");
meta.SetCustomProperty("Field", "NewValue");
meta.SetKeywords("XMP");
meta.SetProducer("E-icenlue Co,.Ltd");
meta.SetSubject("XMP Metadata");
meta.SetTitle("Set XMP Metadata in PDF");
doc.SaveToFile("XMP.pdf", FileFormat.PDF);
}
}
}
Imports Spire.Pdf
Imports Spire.Pdf.Xmp
Namespace SetXMPMetadata
Class Program
Private Shared Sub Main(args As String())
Dim doc As New PdfDocument()
Dim meta As XmpMetadata = doc.XmpMetaData
meta.SetAuthor("E-iceblue")
meta.SetCreateDate(DateTime.Now)
meta.SetCreator("Spire.PDF")
meta.SetCustomProperty("Field", "NewValue")
meta.SetKeywords("XMP")
meta.SetProducer("E-icenlue Co,.Ltd")
meta.SetSubject("XMP Metadata")
meta.SetTitle("Set XMP Metadata in PDF")
doc.SaveToFile("XMP.pdf", FileFormat.PDF)
End Sub
End Class
End Namespace
