He who is Gianni Turri said on Wed, 29 Nov 2017 01:14:47 +0100:

Use the free version of PDFCreator
http://www.pdfforge.org/pdfcreator

When installing it, pay attention to deselect PDF Architect and to
deselect / skip installation of additional software.

When printing to PDFCreator, in the save dialog you have the ability
to change/delete the Author name.

Thanks. Here's my log file.

http://download.pdfforge.org/downloa...Creator-stable
version 3.0.2. Free. Contains ads. 28.8 MB

Click Expert settings when installing to set location & options
It will ask the PDF/BMP/PS printer name (default = PDFCreator)
It will default to the silly location C:\Program Files\PDFCreator
Change to c:\apps\editor\pspdf\pdfcreator\ (requires 57.2MB)
Turn off the items which are on by default:
[x]application files 37.6MB (grayed out)
[x]PDF Architect 5 63.9MB
[x]Firefox integration 0.1 MB
[x]Internet Explorer integration 0.4MB
Check
[x]Create a desktop shortcut (for all users or for the current user only)
Uncheck:
[x]Create a Quick Launch shortcut
[x]Create an entry in the Windows Explorer context menu

Click "No thanks" when it asks you to install "PDF Architect" again.
(Rotate, move, and delete pages, and merge multiple PDFs)

Then watch out as the installation asks you to install something called
"Ad-Aware Web Companion" (which you can press "Skip").

It then pops up a box asking you to buy PDF Architect.

Then move the desktop icon into your Start menu:
Start editor pspdf PDFCreator

Now when you print, you'll have a new choice of printers: PDFCreator
The first time you print using that printer driver, you'll get a popup
which you can edit.

There is a "Metadata" section which defaults to:
Title = PrintJobName
Author = PrintJobAuthor

Remove both those entries, and Save the default profile.
The result will have the file name but not the owner name.

So far it doesn't seem to have phoned home but I didn't run all the checks.