Remove metadata in PDF generation

[karlipl]

Hello,

I would like to remove or at least change the producer in PDF generation for security reasons.

Is there a possibility to do this? The property PdfDocumentRenderer.PdfDocument.Info.Producer is readonly.

Regards
Karl

[mkrattinger]

Hi,
I was also requested to remove the producer from all PDF file after a security audit. Could you please add a setter on the Producer property ?
Kind regards,
Michaël

[Greybird]

We had the same requirement, and ended up forking the PdfSharp version to allow this.
But this is kind of sad, and in a way, not allowing this in PDFSharp is not preventing users to actually remove this metadata.

To ease things for users, would it be possible to either:

1. have control about the "default" Creator, with the ability to set it to null
2. have full control on the Creator property
3. have an option to not override the Creator at save-time, and to rely on the value in the pdf.Info.Elements (that could be set through the Elements collection ?)

Regards,

Arnaud