That's really not an option. Those libraries don't do anything, the actual
work is done Acrobat Pro. In other words, it only works when the user buys a
far too expensive program.
Christiaan
On 8/28/07, Adam R. Maxwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> We could read XMP using Adobe's libraries, but writing it is not
> technically feasible, as Christiaan says.
>
> See <http://support.adobe.com/devsup/devsup.nsf/docs/52082.htm> for
> Adobe's commentary on this. Basically they say you should buy Acrobat to
> add XMP to PDF files. Ideally Apple would provide a PDFKit hook to add XMP
> metadata, so we should all file bug reports suggesting that.
>
> --
> Adam
>
> On Tuesday, August 28, 2007, at 11:23AM, "Christiaan Hofman" <
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >We've had this request before. There are several problems. One is
> >that we know next to nothing about XMP data. Another is that we don't
> >change the PDF. It would require us to completely do the save
> >ourselves, which is really a lot of work which we won't be going
> >into. Moreover AFAIK there are no good libraries we could use to add
> >the metadata easily to a PDF. Jabref uses some Java libraries, but
> >they are programmed in Java. Those libraries are no option for us
> >(also for other reasons, I think they loose some other data). Anyway,
> >the answer is, unfortunately, no.
> >
> >Christiaan
> >
> >On 28 Aug 2007, at 8:07 PM, Daniele Pontillo wrote:
> >
> >> Hello everybody.
> >> I just noticed that Jabref has a feature that could be very useful,
> >> ie writing XMP metadata on pdf files.
> >> Do you think this could be implemented on bibdesk?
> >> Thanks
> >>
> >> Daniele Pontillo
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