Re: PDF author metadata

[David Kastrup]

David Wright <address@hidden> writes:

> On Thu 07 Jul 2016 at 00:52:53 (-0700), Andrew Bernard wrote:
>> This may be the standard, but it is woefully ambiguous, and text-centric.
>> In the case of a music composition, is is the composer or the engraver? Is
>> the ‘document’ the music, or the setting of it?
>
> Neither. It's the PDF document itself.
>
>> Setting Author to the name of the composer does not make it clear to
>> anybody who the composer is. These PDF standards may be iron clad rulings,
>> but they are not well thought out for non-text works.
>
> But the metadata to which "Author" belongs is the *document* metadata,
> not contents metadata. Document metadata is a level above any
> consideration of what the document's contents might represent. The
> designers carefully included this metadata for document handling, and
> gave you Metadata Streams for any sort of *content* handling you might
> wish for. They had their thinking-hats on. :)
>
> There's no problem with LP adding extra keys for content metadata,
> except that many programs will ignore it and not make it available
> to you. So, for example, pdfinfo (Glyph & Cog, LLC) ignores the
> Poet that LP can include.
>
> BTW one of the odd "assumptions" made in LP is in that variable called
> poet. What about compositions whose lyrics are prose?

You mean like Skal han steges på spid eller brunes i gryde?

-- 
David Kastrup