[Lilypond-auto] Issue 3820 in lilypond: Document PDF Metadata

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New issue 3820 by address@hidden: Document PDF Metadata
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=3820

On 14/01/14 06:30, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:

> Am 2014-01-14 um 03:09 schrieb Federico Bruni <address@hidden>:

> > As you can see in this comment, PDF metadata are not documented:
> > https://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1463#c7

> > I think that this deserves an issue in the tracker.

> > Some interesting link:

> > 1) how to add metadata using an external tool (pdftk)
> > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2010-08/msg00461.html
> > http://jkwiens.com/2010/01/04/changing-pdf-metadata-on-ubuntu/

> > 2) a request to be able to add a custom field in the header and tell
> > lilypond to export that field as metadata:
> > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2013-03/msg00708.html

> > this request was made on -user an nobody replied.

> > You can use one of these two commands to print the metadata in a  
> > terminal:
> > exiftool file.pdf
> > pdftk file.pdf dump_data

> I was asking about PDF metadata several times in the last years and  
> besides pdftk just got answers like „you have to do it yourself“.

> The problem with pdftk is, that it’s more or less dead and doesn’t  
> compile on some platforms (e.g. OSX) due to its very special and ancient  
> dependencies. It also has problems with Unicode. And I found no other  
> tool that can do the same.




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