Hi:
Many organizations give out PDF files for handouts following talks at business conferences.
Many of these PDF files contain images embedded within the text.
In the old days, when paper handouts were distributed, there were no problems; the images were shown appropriately within the text on the printed page.
Now that folks are going “green”, organizers are typically giving out electronic copies of the PDFs on CDs or USB drives. The issue here is that if one hovers a mouse over the image in the PDF file, the name and sometimes path description of the embedded image appears. Some of the speakers name the images with proprietary information/titles on their personal computers. When they embed the image within the PDF file, this confidential name/title is also embedded in the PDF. Then, when the recipient of the PDF reads the PDF electronically on her/his computer and hovers her/his mouse over the image, this confidential information pops up for all to see.
One option to fix this would be to ask each speaker to rename the image to something neutral before embedding into the PDF. (BTW, most of these PDFs are generated from PowerPoint files, so the speaker puts the image into PowerPoint, then converts into a PDF from PowerPoint; this is the source for these problematic PDF files). However, given human nature, and that there are 100s of speakers over the years, it is unlikely that this would be a reliable, robust solution.
Thus, does anyone know of a method to automatically “strip” all image titles from within a PDF file? Is there some way to use Adobe Acrobat Professional, or some third party software solution, to run all PDF files through a cleansing software algorithm to remove title information from PDF files, so that it is no longer present in the distributed PDF files, and so that when a reader hovers her/his mouse over the image, nothing pops up???
Thank you very much.
PS: Hopefully, this solution would be platform independent, id est, it wouldn't matter whether one was using a Mac or PC