From: Christoph B. <us...@be...> - 2011-10-24 07:16:28
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On 23.10.2011 19:46, sfeam (Ethan Merritt) wrote: > On Sunday, 23 October 2011, Christoph Bersch wrote: >> On 22.10.2011 20:47 sfeam (Ethan Merritt) wrote: >>> >>> Currently the PostScript and PDF terminals write a prologue record >>> /Title (<filename>) >>> but there have been many complaints from people who don't like the >>> way that some external tools handle this. >> >> I think, there had also been people complaining about the automatic >> insertion of the author's login name in postscript files. > > Yes. So we removed it: > > ChangeLog (both 4.4 and 4.5) > 2010-03-06 Ethan A Merritt<merritt@u.washington.edu> > * src/util.c configure.in config/config.cyg config/config.dj2 > config/config.mgw config/config.ntconfig/config.os2 config/config.oww: > Remove the test for pwd.h, the configuration flag HAVE_PWD_H, and the > conditional code that copies GECOS information from the password file > into the header of PostScript and PDF output files. This addresses > reported issues of privacy and reported problems with building a static > executable. I only saw, that in the CVS version (14. Oct) with the postscript terminal the login name still is written to the output file. Only after your mail I found in the sources, that this information is taken from the 'USER' or 'USERNAME' environment variable. Still I think that some kind of settings for the title, author name, description and maybe other meta data makes sense, and then one has a defined interface on how to set these properties. Christoph |