Re: [Groff] passing groff special chars to pdfmark as bookmarks

[Deri James]

On Wednesday 05 Sep 2012 17:21:09 address@hidden wrote:
> Deri,
> 
> That works right to PDF.  Nice.
> 
> For those that have used gs to assemble pdfs, setting various
> pdf properties like permissions and pdf display variables, I wonder
> how that is to be batched now that groff is going directly to pdf.
> 
> Are there extensions for these various attributes available at
> groff run-time?
> 

I'm afraid the only meta-data you can control in the pdf is using the .pdfview 
and .pdfinfo macros, which is probably not what you want.

You could process the resultant pdf through a further stage, such as 
ghostscript or pdftk which would allow you to encrypt and set permissions on 
the pdf.

Cheers 

Deri