Identifying the source to generate a PDF?

[Lippincott Richard J Contr ESC/NI <Richard -dot- Lippincott -at- hanscom -dot- af -dot- mil>]

Those of you who know me know that this is difficult for me, but I'm going to cut directly to the short version of a long story.

I'm trying to get some manuals published, and we've shipped PDF files to the government printing agency responsible for the job. They're balking, for a number of reasons.

One of the reasons floored me. The responsible manager claimed that by examining the PDF file, the print agency determined that the documents had been produced in MS Word. The manager's beef is that the contract requirements are that the documents be produced using tagged SGML.

So far as I know, there is no way to examine a PDF file and evaluate what word processor or DTP package was used to create the document. 

Am I correct? 

If there is a way to make the determination, what is it?

(Oh, BTW, in fact we DID use SGML, the documents were produced using Epic/Arbortext and a government approved DTD.)

Thanks...

--Rick Lippincott
  Bedford, MA

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