On 25 Mar 2008, at 9:38 PM, Mark Eli Kalderon wrote: > > 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. >
In fact, it provides libraries to ask Acrobat PRO to do that work for you. By themselves, these libraries are useless. Christiaan > But the more general point remains: there is no widely accepted > standard for embedding bibliographic metadata. > > Best, Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
