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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Philip Taylor wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">I am completely confused in that I am no longer seeing the XML metadata in the PDF file even having (a) commented those two lines out, and then (b) replaced the entire LaTeX source with a clean copy taken from the web. Probably too tired to think straight :-(</pre>
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OK, I was (and am) too tired to think straight, but now I understand
what is going on. The XML metadata are /added by Adobe Acrobat/,
when I use File / Reduce file size / For Acrobat 4 in order to bring
the PDF version down to 1.3. Which means (I am delighted to be able
to report) that the following does indeed achieve what was/is
intended :<br>
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% !TeX Program = XeTeX<br>
% !TeX Root = For-JK.tex<br>
% !TeX Project = An Oral History of Horsmonden<br>
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\newif \ifpdfxa<br>
\pdfxatrue<br>
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\ifpdfxa<br>
\special {pdf: put @thispage << /ArtBox [0 0 498.89641
708.65968] >>}<br>
\special {pdf: put @thispage << /BleedBox [0 0 498.89641
708.65968] >>}<br>
\special {pdf: put @thispage << /CropBox [0 0 498.89641
708.65968] >>}<br>
\special {pdf: put @thispage << /MediaBox [0 0 498.89641
708.65968] >>}<br>
\special {pdf: put @thispage << /TrimBox [0 0 498.89641
708.65968] >>}<br>
\special {pdf: docinfo << /GTS_PDFXVersion
(PDF/X-1:2001) /GTS_PDFXConformance (PDF/X-1a:2001) >>}<br>
\special {pdf: put @catalog << /PageMode /UseNone
/OutputIntents [ << /Info (none) /Type /OutputIntent /S
/GTS_PDFX /OutputConditionIdentifier (Custom) /RegistryName
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.color.org/">http://www.color.org/</a>) >> ] >>}<br>
\special {pdf: dest (page.1) [@thispage /XYZ @xpos @ypos
null]}<br>
\special {pdf: put @thispage << /ArtBox [0 0 498.89641
708.65968] >>}<br>
\special {pdf: put @thispage << /BleedBox [0 0 498.89641
708.65968] >>}<br>
\special {pdf: put @thispage << /CropBox [0 0 498.89641
708.65968] >>}<br>
\special {pdf: put @thispage << /MediaBox [0 0 498.89641
708.65968] >>}<br>
\special {pdf: put @thispage << /TrimBox [0 0 498.89641
708.65968] >>}<br>
\special {pdf: docinfo <<
/Title(DocTitle)/Subject()/Creator(XeTeX)/ModDate(D:20160710164300)/Author(Philip
Taylor)/Producer(XeTeX 0.99996)/Keywords(PDF
specials)/Trapped/False >>}<br>
\fi<br>
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\leavevmode<br>
\end<br>
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</tt>My sincere thanks to Jonathan, for his suggestion which
inspired my solution, and to Apostolos, Zdeněk and others who have
tried to help.<br>
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** Phil.<tt><br>
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Philip Taylor</div>
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