On 11/16/2016 12:07 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > Dear friends, > > I have been e-mailed a pdf file and I wanted to know who the author was > and what the date/time of creation was. Is it possible for me to find > this information using tools available on the F24 repositories? >> Ranjan, imbw, tho i do believe such info being contained within a .pdf file would be determined by the pdf file composer. if a pdf composer does include such info, you can search source of pdf file for _viewable_ text with; hexdump -C filename.pdf|less or hexdump -C filename.pdf>save2textfile if pdf file is 'notable', you could try a web search to see if there has been any write ups. much luck. -- peace out. tc,hago. CentOS GNU/Linux 6.8 KDE 4.3.4 g . =+= Tired of having your microsoft os hacked? Change to Linux os, used by microsoft hackers. =+= If Bill Gates got a dime for every time Windows crashes... ...oh, wait. He does. THAT explains it! =+= in a world with out fences, who needs gates. =+= _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx