I added tags to all my PDF's at once. About 10% won't allow any metadata on them.
They error out with this:
Recently I switched over to Foxit PDF reader, and used an uninstall tool to remove traces of Adobe products. So that could be it. Or do I need another plugin for metadata? I see that the Windows Club has this "File Metadata Association Manager" for unsupported filetypes. ?
I added full control to my current user profile, but still nothing.
I'll probably just reinstall Adobe Acrobat and see what happens. It might even be Foxit itself that is blocking me for some reason.
The permissions on the ones that don't work are the same or less permissions than the ones that work.
Tried the 'WIndows Club' File Association Manager.
Rebuilt my Everything index, double checking on every setting.
Tried the Windows filter pack 2.0
Tried Exif tool.
Repaired Acrobat.
Opened with Foxit then 'save as' to overwrite the file. That worked on one pdf, then didn't work again after that.
The ones that work seem to have a completely different format than those that don't.
I'm also disappointed that the viewer knows the page count on documents but the pages column isn't printing that info.
I was going to wait to ask about that, but it looks like I won't be getting this issue fixed, and I have no way of knowing if this problem is on my end.
Created an Adobe account so that I can try the save-as trick on the offending pdf's.
It worked on about half of them.
The rest got purged. I lost about 20 manuals or so. Then I got rid of Acrobat. And removed the sixteen thousand objects it tried to leave on my computer. Bye Adobe. You know where you can stick your legal malware.
Can any software add tags to the PDF files that are causing problems? The files may be set to block modifications (e.g. because they are digitally signed and changing them would break the signature; or just because whoever made them is mean).
Not sure. I've been using Dopus to add tags, which has been working fine, so I didn't think to use something else. But that is a good idea to try. I tried Eagle, but that is sidecar tagging; I'll look for something else to test out.