[Lilypond-auto] [LilyIssues-auto] [testlilyissues:issues] #3820 Add arbitrary header field to PDF Metadata

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[issues:#3820] Add arbitrary header field to PDF Metadata

Status: Accepted
Created: Sat Jan 18, 2014 01:20 PM UTC by Anonymous
Last Updated: Sun Jul 03, 2016 08:42 AM UTC
Owner: nobody

Originally created by: *anonymous

Originally created by: address@hidden

On 14/01/14 06:30, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
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> Am 2014-01-14 um 03:09 schrieb Federico Bruni <address@hidden>:
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>> As you can see in this comment, PDF metadata are not documented:
>> https://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1463#c7
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>> I think that this deserves an issue in the tracker.
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>> Some interesting link:
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>> 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/
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>> 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
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>> this request was made on -user an nobody replied.
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>> You can use one of these two commands to print the metadata in a terminal:
>> exiftool file.pdf
>> pdftk file.pdf dump_data
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> 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“.
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> 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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