Hi Adam,

Thanks a lot for the detailed explanation. Now it's clear. And hopefully
Adobe will do a better job.

Chao

On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 11:03 PM, Adam R. Maxwell <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> On Jun 2, 2011, at 19:44 , Chao LU wrote:
>
> > Dear Christiaan,
> >
> > Thanks a lot for responding!
> >
> >  Actually I have another question about the metadata: Will it be possible
> to write all the metadatas(title, author, subject, keyword, comments)
> directly to the pdf file itself? Since Adobe supports these metadata inside
> the pdf.
>
> There used to be an experimental hidden preference to do this, but I think
> it was removed.  At the time, Apple's PDF saving code had some problems, so
> it was a potentially destructive operation.
>
> I think you can still get it to read the PDF metadata using
> BDSKShouldUsePDFMetadata [1], but that seldom saves any typing.
>  Unfortunately, PDF metadata is much less reliable than mp3 metadata, even
> when the PDF comes from a commercial publisher.
>
> Adobe XMP [2] is a way of embedding metadata in various file types, but
> Adobe's libraries do not provide read/write support for PDF (or didn't last
> time I checked).  This would let you non-destructively add arbitrary tags to
> a document, though, such as a BibTeX record.
>
> --
> Adam
>
> [1]
> https://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/bibdesk/index.php?title=Tips_and_Tricks
>
> [2] http://www.adobe.com/products/xmp/
>
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