Re: Referencer ignores PDF metadata ?
Adrien ANDRE <adrien.andre.m <at> gmail.com>
2011-07-15 19:42:51 GMT
Too bad these informations aren't taken into account, especially when
information fields remain empty after the Referencer lookup.
Not to mention that the special PDF metadata 'Producer' exists to store
this program name.
Adrien
Le 15/07/2011 13:00, referencer-request <at> icculus.org a écrit :
> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 15:30:07 -0300
> From: Adrien ANDRE<adrien.andre.m <at> gmail.com>
> Subject: [referencer] Referencer ignores PDF metadata ?
> To: referencer <at> icculus.org
> Message-ID:<4E1F35AF.5050003 <at> gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>
> Hi all,
>
> i was surprised noticing Referencer doesn't use PDF metadata,
> that one can easily dump using these two linux commands, for example :
>
> pdfinfo paper.pdf
> pdftk paper.pdf dump_data
>
> Is this functionality in development ? Did i miss something ?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Adrien
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 19:47:01 +0100
> From: John Spray<jcspray <at> gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [referencer] Referencer ignores PDF metadata ?
> To: referencer mailing list<referencer <at> icculus.org>
> Message-ID:
> <CAJP3sOXwAx0W0B-1+UxhDxs36mtxvjx_J_RrZEkqd51kTf6qQg <at> mail.gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
>
> In my experience, hardly any PDFs in the wild have useful metadata. Author
> is frequently set to the name of the program that generated the PDF.
>
> _______________________________________________
> referencer mailing list
> referencer <at> icculus.org
> http://icculus.org/mailman/listinfo/referencer
_______________________________________________
referencer mailing list
referencer <at> icculus.org
http://icculus.org/mailman/listinfo/referencer
RSS Feed