New tools for working with PDF Music

As iPad apps get more and more advanced in dealing with PDF music, I find I want to go back and alter my PDF’s from the past two years. Now I am seeing a great advantage to having metadata embedded into these PDF’s. Metadata is what you are given the opportunity to input when you create a PDF file from the Print menu in OSX – It allows you to put in a Title, Author, Subject, and Keywords. The problem is that it is not an option in Preview to go in later and change that data.

ForScore has a desktop app out that I have used in the past that allows for editing of this info though. When using the ForScore desktop app, you are  given the option to input Title, Composer, Genre, Difficulty and Rating. as seen in the screenshot to the side. Composer is just a rewording of Author and Genre is a rewording of Subject. their options for Difficulty and Rating is specific only to ForScore. The problem with using this app is that you can only change one file at a time. Some of these boxes could be filled in all at once for a bunch of PDF’s – like Genre or Keywords. So I went looking again….

Tonight I did a few google searches and came across one other app, for OSX, that will allow me to change an entire folder of files at once!

PDFInfo is a free app that allows for changes to all files in a certain folder or you can change one file at a time. Here is a screenshot of this app at work. I think I will be using all three options to get this metadata filled in – it just depends on which metadata I am trying to input and at what stage in the creating or using of the PDF I am at.