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podofoxmp

PODOFOXMP(1)							     podofoxmp							      PODOFOXMP(1)

NAME

       podofoxmp - Modify or extract XMP information from a PDF file

SYNOPSIS

       podofoxmp [inputfile] [xmpfile outputfile]

DESCRIPTION

       podofoxmp  is  one  of the command line tools from the PoDoFo library that provide several useful operations to work with PDF files. It can
       extract or modify XMP information in a PDF file.

OPTIONS

       [inputfile]

	      Input PDF file. This is the only option needed to extract the XMP information from a PDF file.

       [xmpfile]

	      Optional file that provides PDF XMP structure. It must be used in conjuction with an [outputfile].

       [outputfile]

	      Output PDF file. It is only used in conjuction with an [xmpfile].

SEE ALSO

       podofobox(1), podofocountpages(1), podofocrop(1), podofoencrypt(1), podofoimg2pdf(1), podofoimgextract(1), podofoimpose(1), podofoincremen-
       talupdates(1), podofomerge(1), podofopages(1), podofopdfinfo(1), podofotxt2pdf(1), podofotxtextract(1), podofouncompress(1),

AUTHORS

       PoDoFo is written by Dominik Seichter <domseichter@web.de> and others.

       This manual page was written by Oleksandr Moskalenko <malex@debian.org> for the Debian Project (but may be used by others).

PoDoFo								    2010-12-09							      PODOFOXMP(1)

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