In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Christiaan Hofman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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. Adobe's XMP toolkit allows you to write metadata to common file types /except/ PDF. The XMP toolkit allows you to read from various types, /including/ PDF. So as I wrote yesterday, if publishers put useful information in PDF via XMP, we can read it. -- adam ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
