Xara Photo and Graphic 18, PDF creation with all identifying information removed?

[Elixer]

Hi,

What is the best way to create a Xara Photo and Graphic Designer 18, PDF document, with all traceable and identifying creation information removed from the document?

In other words a clean, generic PDF document!

This is for personal security reasons!

Cheers Elixer

[handrawn]

well going to the pdf export options > document tab, and unticking 'include document information' is a good start, as is exporting it to the root of a non system drive so your windows username path is not in the pdf document properties either

that's as far as I usually go, but there may be more to do

I don't really have the need in PDF; in MS Office on the other hand....

[Elixer]

Thanks Handrawn for two useful tips.

Export to an external hard drive is not a bad idea!

[Acorn]

I do not believe you can remove things like the Producer information, version, etc from within Xara.
You will need another application - Web Search: remove pdf producer info.

Acorn

[handrawn]

you can use adobe reader DC to redact - but you only get 7 days free

first link to hand:

https://www.siam.org/publications/jo...al-information

adobe reader itself is free; acrobat is not

[Elixer]

Yes Acorn, I suspect that the Xara information will still be retained.

And handrawn, I tried the seven day free Adobe reader DC but I have used my trial up, before I reedited my final version! Idiot!

It is expensive software for what I want to do! I might have to find a professional office which has the software, but even then, will it remove the Xara information??