[toolbox] PDF files and metadata
Status: Planning
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From: Adam R. M. <ama...@ma...> - 2006-02-19 00:05:41
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I've been playing around with PDF metadata support in BibDesk, presently implemented as hidden features in the nightly builds. The basic idea is that the PDF file has either full BibTeX associated with it as an extended attribute, or else has the standard Author/ Title/Date/Keywords metadata supported by PDFDocument and Spotlight. With that support, dropping a PDF file on BibDesk fills in much of the needed citation information for you. So far, so good. Unfortunately, Mac OS X xattrs aren't supported on other platforms, and setting the PDF attributes via PDFDocument (and then saving the PDFDocument) is /really/ slow, as it needs to re- render the PDF. Question: Does anyone know of a better way to do this? I looked at Adobe's XMP library, but I don't grok C++, and it seems really low-level in any case. Suggestion: It might be nice if the TeX front ends that use PDFDocument could write some of that metadata into the file, either by parsing it or providing an interface to edit the metadata. thanks, Adam (wondering if the list still works...) |