On Mar 24, 2008, at 6:29 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: >> After I babbled about this for ages, without actually taking action >> [1], I got a few calls from publishers interested in doing it, >> including Nature. The stumbling blocks at the time were: >> >> a) Code to insert the XMP elements into the PDF (although I think >> they >> could have licensed Adobe's stuff easily enough) > > That's right, it requires you to have Acrobat Pro. IMHO, that > requirement just kills XMP from ever to become useful.
Well, XMP Toolkit provides C++ libraries for creating and retrieving embedded metadata and is available under a BSD license. But the more general point remains: there is no widely accepted standard for embedding bibliographic metadata. Best, Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
