[reportlab-users] Strange properties of PDF files created on Windows 10

[Robin Becker]

On 07/01/2020 11:35, Axel P. Kielhorn wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I create PDF files on Windows 10 with Python 3.7.5 and reportlab 3.5.26.
> 
> Everything is fine, but when I copy the files to an USB drive with a FAT32 filesystem I get the following message:
> 
> Die Datei X.pdf verfügt über Eigenschaften, die nicht an den neuen Ort kopiert werden können.
> 
> The File X.pdf has properties that cannot be copied to the new location.
> 
Hi again Axel,

my colleague Djan created a trivial PDF with reportlab 3.5.32 on windows 10 and copying via command line or using the 
file manager did not cause any error messages to appear. Perhaps there's something special about the system or the usb.

Certainly reportlab doesn't create any special properties when writing files out. We did notice that the copy did not 
preserve ownership (using file properties).

Our test script looked like this

##########################################
from reportlab.pdfgen.canvas import Canvas
canv = Canvas("test.pdf")
canv.drawString(72,72,"Hello World!")
canv.save()
##########################################


> What kind of properties are these?
> 
> What can I do to prevent this message?
> 
> With kind regards
> Axel
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Robin Becker