My document includes the commands
\documentclass{article} \usepackage [colorlinks] {hyperref} \hypersetup { colorlinks, pdfinfo={ Author={Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz} Subject={Topology} Title={A Proposed Unification of Manifolds and Fibre Bundles} } } \begin{document} \null \end{document} The the author in the created PDF metadata is "Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Subject=Topology Title=A Proposed Unification of Manifolds and Fibre Bundles"; the other two fields are blank.
Option pdfinfo expect key value pairs, separated by commas. The latter, the commas between the key value pairs are missing. Then Author is the key and the remaining part is the value. With commas:
\documentclass{article} \usepackage [colorlinks] {hyperref} \hypersetup { colorlinks, pdfinfo={ Author={Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz}, Subject={Topology}, Title={A Proposed Unification of Manifolds and Fibre Bundles}, } } \begin{document} \null \end{document} Result with pdfinfo:
$ pdfinfo test.pdf Title: A Proposed Unification of Manifolds and Fibre Bundles Subject: Topology Keywords: Author: Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Creator: LaTeX with hyperref package Producer: pdfTeX-1.40.17 CreationDate: Mon Aug 15 19:17:29 2016 ModDate: Mon Aug 15 19:17:29 2016 Tagged: no Form: none Pages: 1 Encrypted: no Page size: 612 x 792 pts (letter) (rotated 0 degrees) File size: 8488 bytes Optimized: no PDF version: 1.5 