Re: [toolbox] PDF files and metadata

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Le 19 f=E9vr. 06, =E0 18:23, Adam R. Maxwell a =E9crit :

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> On Feb 19, 2006, at 03:10, Maarten Sneep wrote:
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>> On 19 Feb 2006, at 1:06, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:
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>>> So far, so good.  Unfortunately, Mac OS X xattrs aren't supported on=20=

>>> other platforms, and setting the PDF attributes via PDFDocument (and=20=

>>> then saving the PDFDocument) is /really/ slow, as it needs to=20
>>> re-render the PDF.
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>>> Question:
>>> Does anyone know of a better way to do this?  I looked at Adobe's=20
>>> XMP library, but I don't grok C++, and it seems really low-level in=20=

>>> any case.
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>> It is. But if you can generate the xml describing the metadata,=20
>> adding it to a pdftex generated file is trivial, and I think it isn't=20=

>> too hard either adding the blob to other files as well.
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> We have all the metadata available, so writing XML from code is pretty=20=

> reasonable (I only object to writing XML by hand).  I'm assuming this=20=

> is the easy part, anyway.
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>> The hardest part is recreating the pointer table at the end of the=20
>> pdf file, but I think you can script this using pdftk as an engine.
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> If anyone has pointers to sample code doing this, I'd be interested. =20=

> The Adobe sample code is pretty worthless for my purposes.
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Maybe I don't get the problem but this might help

http://hacks.oreilly.com/pub/h/2407