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Old November 29th 17, 12:46 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
harry newton
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Default What's the easiest way to print PDFs on Windows 10 with privacy?

I just want to print PDF from Windows without my name in the PDF!

When I use the Windows 10 PDF drivers, I get a PDF with my name in the
Adobe Acrobat Reader File Properties Description Author field.

I don't want my name in the properties, but Adobe Acrobat Reader doesn't
let me remove it.

What's the easiest way to print PDFs on Windows 10 with privacy?
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Old November 29th 17, 01:14 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Default What's the easiest way to print PDFs on Windows 10 with privacy?

On Tue, 28 Nov 2017 23:46:25 +0000 (UTC), harry newton
wrote:

I just want to print PDF from Windows without my name in the PDF!

When I use the Windows 10 PDF drivers, I get a PDF with my name in the
Adobe Acrobat Reader File Properties Description Author field.

I don't want my name in the properties, but Adobe Acrobat Reader doesn't
let me remove it.

What's the easiest way to print PDFs on Windows 10 with privacy?


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.

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Old November 29th 17, 02:17 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Default What's the easiest way to print PDFs on Windows 10 with privacy?

"harry newton" wrote

|I just want to print PDF from Windows without my name in the PDF!
|

I use Libre Office Writer for creating PDFs. Other than
adding "Libre Office" and "Writer" to the properties
it only shows obvious things like file size, name, etc.

Another good idea is don't use your name as the
username on the system. I usually set people up
with something like "Default". That way programs
that impose without asking, like Acrobat or MS Word,
won't be so problematic. Logging on as "Harry
Newton" is a feature for keeping track of corporate
employees, after all. You know who you are. You
don't need your name plastered all over your own
computer.


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Old November 29th 17, 03:50 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Default What's the easiest way to print PDFs on Windows 10 with privacy?

harry newton wrote:
I just want to print PDF from Windows without my name in the PDF!

When I use the Windows 10 PDF drivers, I get a PDF with my name in the
Adobe Acrobat Reader File Properties Description Author field.

I don't want my name in the properties, but Adobe Acrobat Reader doesn't
let me remove it.

What's the easiest way to print PDFs on Windows 10 with privacy?


Print to PostScript, sanitize metadata (with Notepad), distill to PDF
with GhostScript.

You will need a PostScript print driver.

Paul
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Old November 29th 17, 04:22 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Default What's the easiest way to print PDFs on Windows 10 with privacy?

He who is Paul said on Tue, 28 Nov 2017 21:50:18 -0500:

Print to PostScript, sanitize metadata (with Notepad), distill to PDF
with GhostScript.

You will need a PostScript print driver.


That's far easier said than actually done on Windows 10.

Microsoft has no clue:
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-hardware/postscript-driver-for-windows-10/25d30793-4055-4035-ac0b-9eb549fb510c?auth=1

Adobe no longer supports Windows PSCRIPT5.DLL:
https://forums.adobe.com/thread/738232

Winsteng.exe used to work:
winsteng.exe http://supportdownloads.adobe.com/detail.jsp?ftpID=1500

Winsteng.exe no longer works:
https://www.file-extensions.org/article/how-to-install-a-virtual-postscript-printer-in-windows

It seems that it's not possible to print to PostScript in Windows 10.
At least from those pages it does.
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Old November 29th 17, 04:30 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Default What's the easiest way to print PDFs on Windows 10 with privacy?

The videos YOU linked to showing how poorly Android handles even part of the
stated task poorly:

https://youtu.be/cywLOctCrCs
https://youtu.be/bYDvgoYSVSU
https://youtu.be/G0sKTWfHHnk
https://youtu.be/TfvtREsCQDY

Those videos claim Android handles the task so poorly that to even get the
first line requires extra hardware. You even claimed the list "goes on
forever". Wow... YOU showed Android is far worse at this than I thought!

And now that you get that you are having a very emotional toddler tantrum.
Which I am feeding.

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Old November 29th 17, 04:47 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Default What's the easiest way to print PDFs on Windows 10 with privacy?

harry newton wrote:
He who is Paul said on Tue, 28 Nov 2017 21:50:18 -0500:

Print to PostScript, sanitize metadata (with Notepad), distill to PDF
with GhostScript.

You will need a PostScript print driver.


That's far easier said than actually done on Windows 10.

Microsoft has no clue:
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-hardware/postscript-driver-for-windows-10/25d30793-4055-4035-ac0b-9eb549fb510c?auth=1


Adobe no longer supports Windows PSCRIPT5.DLL:
https://forums.adobe.com/thread/738232

Winsteng.exe used to work:
winsteng.exe http://supportdownloads.adobe.com/detail.jsp?ftpID=1500

Winsteng.exe no longer works:
https://www.file-extensions.org/article/how-to-install-a-virtual-postscript-printer-in-windows


It seems that it's not possible to print to PostScript in Windows 10.
At least from those pages it does.


http://www8.hp.com/us/en/solutions/b...tions/upd.html

"The HP UPD is available in PCL5, PCL6, and Postscript emulation,
and supports current Windows client and server operating systems
(32‑bit and 64-bit), as well as Novell and Citrix. Local language
drivers are available in 35 languages."

At first I had trouble with some version of that. I
was getting "bitmap" Postscript prints, not vector. But
I played around with the settings and eventually got
regular (quality) Postscript from it.

The driver was originally written by Microsoft, and is
given to OEMs so they can use it as the basis for
a driver. So while HP is taking a bow there, the work
underneath might not be 100% theirs.

Once the driver is installed, you need to get it to
"Print to File" and not go looking for a physical
printer. That's part of the puzzle you have to solve.
This is not a 10 minute job, and there will be
a bit of research.

I'd try to dig up more info for you, but I don't
know which OS has that config on it right now. I
didn't put it everywhere.

Paul
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Old November 29th 17, 04:49 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
harry newton
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Default What's the easiest way to print PDFs on Windows 10 with privacy?

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.
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Old November 29th 17, 04:54 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Default What's the easiest way to print PDFs on Windows 10 with privacy?

The videos YOU linked to showing how poorly Android handles even part of the
stated task poorly:

https://youtu.be/cywLOctCrCs
https://youtu.be/bYDvgoYSVSU
https://youtu.be/G0sKTWfHHnk
https://youtu.be/TfvtREsCQDY

Those videos claim Android handles the task so poorly that to even get the
first line requires extra hardware. You even claimed the list "goes on
forever". Wow... YOU showed Android is far worse at this than I thought!

And now that you get that you are having a very emotional toddler tantrum.
Which I am feeding.

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Old November 29th 17, 05:31 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Paul[_32_]
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Default What's the easiest way to print PDFs on Windows 10 with privacy?

Paul wrote:
harry newton wrote:
He who is Paul said on Tue, 28 Nov 2017 21:50:18 -0500:

Print to PostScript, sanitize metadata (with Notepad), distill to PDF
with GhostScript.

You will need a PostScript print driver.


That's far easier said than actually done on Windows 10.

Microsoft has no clue:
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-hardware/postscript-driver-for-windows-10/25d30793-4055-4035-ac0b-9eb549fb510c?auth=1


Adobe no longer supports Windows PSCRIPT5.DLL:
https://forums.adobe.com/thread/738232

Winsteng.exe used to work:
winsteng.exe http://supportdownloads.adobe.com/detail.jsp?ftpID=1500

Winsteng.exe no longer works:
https://www.file-extensions.org/article/how-to-install-a-virtual-postscript-printer-in-windows


It seems that it's not possible to print to PostScript in Windows 10.
At least from those pages it does.


http://www8.hp.com/us/en/solutions/b...tions/upd.html


"The HP UPD is available in PCL5, PCL6, and Postscript emulation,
and supports current Windows client and server operating systems
(32‑bit and 64-bit), as well as Novell and Citrix. Local language
drivers are available in 35 languages."

At first I had trouble with some version of that. I
was getting "bitmap" Postscript prints, not vector. But
I played around with the settings and eventually got
regular (quality) Postscript from it.

The driver was originally written by Microsoft, and is
given to OEMs so they can use it as the basis for
a driver. So while HP is taking a bow there, the work
underneath might not be 100% theirs.

Once the driver is installed, you need to get it to
"Print to File" and not go looking for a physical
printer. That's part of the puzzle you have to solve.
This is not a 10 minute job, and there will be
a bit of research.

I'd try to dig up more info for you, but I don't
know which OS has that config on it right now. I
didn't put it everywhere.

Paul


The one I used on Windows 7 at the time was

upd-ps-x64-6.1.0.20062.exe (21,269,720 bytes)

And this is what it looks like.

https://s18.postimg.org/jww7taxzd/universal_PS.gif

The Whe field says "FILE" and there was some
trick to it that I don't remember. Because you don't
want it looking for an actual printer.

Paul

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Old November 29th 17, 05:32 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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He who is Paul said on Tue, 28 Nov 2017 22:47:20 -0500:

Once the driver is installed, you need to get it to
"Print to File" and not go looking for a physical
printer. That's part of the puzzle you have to solve.
This is not a 10 minute job, and there will be
a bit of research.


Thanks Paul.
It seemed so promising a road to go down, that I traveled the road,
following all the signs, until it stopped me at a dead end of sorts (which
you predicted).

I first went he
http://www8.hp.com/us/en/solutions/b...tions/upd.html

Which had this download page for an "HP Universal Print Driver"
https://support.hp.com/us-en/drivers.../model/4157320

Specifically this file:
http://ftp.hp.com/pub/softlib/softwa....5.0.22695.exe
Named: upd-ps-x64-6.5.0.22695.exe
HP Universal Print Driver for Windows PostScript (64-bit), Win10
version 6.5.0.22695, 18.9 MB, Sep 26, 2017

Doubleclicking on that file brings up a WinZip Dialog which defaults to:
c:\HP Universal Print Driver\ps-x64-6.5.0.22695\

Which has an "install.exe" which when doubleclicked says:
"Welcome to the HP Universal Printing Setup Wizard"
Whose choices a
(_) Traditional Mode - Creates a regular printer object in your Printers
folder. With this mode, you select the destination printer now, and
it remains fixed.
(o) Dynamic Mode - Creates a special "Universal Printer" object in your
Printers folder. With this mode, you can dynamically select your
destination printer each time you print.
(_) USB mode - Plug and Play

When you hit "Next", you see a dialog saying "Copying files" for
"HP Universal Printing PS".

Then it pops up the Windows:
Control Panel All Control Panel Items Devices and Printers
"HP Universal Printing PS"

Bringing up a text file, I press "File Print" and it allows me to
choose the printer "HP Universal Printing PS" and [x]Print to file.

The default file name extension is *.prn

But then, it asked me to "find" a printer.
And it pops up a file system browser.
What?
How am I supposed to find a printer on my file system?
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Old November 29th 17, 05:44 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Default What's the easiest way to print PDFs on Windows 10 with privacy?

The videos YOU linked to showing how poorly Android handles even part of the
stated task poorly:

https://youtu.be/cywLOctCrCs
https://youtu.be/bYDvgoYSVSU
https://youtu.be/G0sKTWfHHnk
https://youtu.be/TfvtREsCQDY

Those videos claim Android handles the task so poorly that to even get the
first line requires extra hardware. You even claimed the list "goes on
forever". Wow... YOU showed Android is far worse at this than I thought!

And now that you get that you are having a very emotional toddler tantrum.
Which I am feeding.

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Old November 29th 17, 10:24 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Default What's the easiest way to print PDFs on Windows 10 with privacy?

"harry newton" wrote

I just want to print PDF from Windows without my name in the PDF!


I use Libre Office Writer for creating PDFs. Other than
adding "Libre Office" and "Writer" to the properties
it only shows obvious things like file size, name, etc.

This approach offers the same settings as Adobe Acrobat and other PDF editors,
but it's missing the file description tab in the dialog for entering/editing
these document properties...

Title
Author
Subject
Subject (or as in LibreOffice; Base URL)
Keywords

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Old November 29th 17, 10:35 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Oops.., correction
Title
Author
Subject


Subject (or as in Nuance Power PDF; Base URL)

Keywords


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Old November 29th 17, 12:12 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.comp.freeware
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On 29/11/2017 8:14 AM, Gianni Turri wrote:

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


And use older versions to escape from ads... I think it's 0.9.6!

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