PDF Editor: BeCyPDFMetaedit

Numanoid · **Joined:** Fri Dec 07, 2007 1:21 pm **Posts:** 11

Freeware PDF editor that runs on my USB drive:

Description: "The program loads PDF documents (conforming to specification 1.6) and allows editing of several settings like the metadata about author, title, subject and keywords of the document. Furthermore, one can customize the viewer preferences, the bookmarks, the page labels, the page transitions for slide shows and the encryption/permissions of a document."

www.becyhome.de/becypdfmetaedit/description_eng.htm

Numanoid · **Joined:** Fri Dec 07, 2007 1:21 pm **Posts:** 11

I'm not sure why this great little programme haven't been included in the list here yet?

None of the editors that are listed in the PDF editor section are really editors. Fox it and eXpert are fine programmes but they are basically readers aren't they?

I have yet to find another freeware programme that does the same as "BeCyPDFMetaedit", like adding bookmarks and changing the metadata of PDF files.

Queue · **Joined:** Mon Oct 08, 2007 2:41 am **Posts:** 198

Keep in mind omissions aren't usually left out maliciously; sometimes the flood of programs just gets ahead of the site admins and they miss some. Also, if a purpose of a given program doesn't interest an admin it makes sense that they'd be less likely to check it and get it into the database.

Queue

Cornflower · **Posted:** Fri May 30, 2008 10:41 pm

I must have looked at it before, but not that I took the time to download BeCyPDFMetaEdit (and BeCyPDFAsm) it is WoW! It is most (not all) of PDFtkBuilder and so much more. I can finally add bookmarks easily, add page numbering, and all in a portable set.

The only problem (if it is a problem) are the names. The GUIs may be intuitive, but typing the names without typos is not!

Great find! Add my vote for adding both to the DB.

Numanoid · **Joined:** Fri Dec 07, 2007 1:21 pm **Posts:** 11

Finding freeware PDF editors is difficult, but with the BeCyPDF programmes + PDF Creator [http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/] and Gios PDF Splitter/Merger [http://www.paologios.com/products/psm.aspx] one has the basic tools to be able to do professional PDF editing.

alanbcohen · **Joined:** Tue Feb 13, 2007 2:40 pm **Posts:** 83

Interesting, but I don't understand it at all. It looks like a tag editor for PDF's and that's fine, but when I open a PDF, I can't see it at all in this program. I've used a lot of editors in my time, including line editors and I've never seen an editor that doesn't display some of content.

Can someone please direct me to a page display?

ashghost · **Posted:** Sat May 31, 2008 12:23 pm

Since it's not a content editor, but a metadata editor, it doesn't show the content. It does correctly load the existing metadata. While a viewer would be nice so that you could see your changes more easily, it's probably either above the coding abilities of the programmer or s/he just preferred to keep the app small. To see your results, just save your changes and then open the file in a viewer. Since there's no other freeware that can do what this does, it's a small price to pay

As Cornflower mentioned, it's similar to PDFtkBuilder, which also does not show content. This has functions that PDFtkBuilder doesn't, but BeCyPDFAsm covers most of those.

Cornflower · **Posted:** Sun Jun 01, 2008 2:53 am

[quote="Numanoid"]Finding freeware PDF editors is difficult, but with the BeCyPDF programmes + PDF Creator [http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/] and Gios PDF Splitter/Merger [http://www.paologios.com/products/psm.aspx] one has the basic tools to be able to do professional PDF editing.[/quote]

Note that Gios PDF Splitter/Merger requires .NET
I haven't downloaded the Gios product but from their screen shots and description, it looks like the BeCyPDFAsm (and mbtPdfAsm) product would have it beat hands down.

I do agree that a PDF printer drive along with PDF split/merge, metadata capabilities simulate much of what one might want with a PDF Editor. I've been doing that for a few years now with pdftkBuilder!

tproli · **Joined:** Sat Sep 09, 2006 10:14 am **Posts:** 47

Thanks Numanoid, nice find!
I was searching for a tool exactly like BeCyPDFMetaEdit. Command line support is an extra joy.

However, the application stores two unimportant settings here:

Code:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Benjamin Bentmann

myzdoxae · **Joined:** Sun Jul 09, 2006 6:04 pm **Posts:** 8

Very cool program. Thanks.

I was looking for something like this. Before I just had TweakPDF.
http://www.coolpdf.com/tweakpdf.html

It says is supports down to Windows 98, so I don't think it needs .NET or anything fancy.
It doesn't offer as many options as BeCy, but sometimes you don't need all those options (If you just want to change the Title or something).

Andrew Lee · **Joined:** Sat Feb 04, 2006 9:19 am **Posts:** 1101

It writes a couple of settings to:

Code:

HKU\S-1-5-21-789336058-839522115-725345543-1000\Software\Benjamin Bentmann\BeCyPDFMetaEdit\Options

though.

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