Thank you. I'll study that. I wonder how programs such as Papers and Mendeley are able to extract that info from PDF files -- or do they not extract them from the PDFs?
==Tamer On 2011-10-11, at 11:20 PM, Maxwell, Adam R wrote: > > On Oct 11, 2011, at 14:16, M. Tamer Özsu wrote: > >> Some PDF files do have this information included as metadata that some >> programs are able to extract. I thought there might be a mechanism such as >> that, but I understand that there isn't. > > There is, but most of that metadata is junk. Look for > BDSKShouldUsePDFMetadata on this page: > > http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/bibdesk/index.php?title=Tips_and_Tricks > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a > definitive record of customers, application performance, security > threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes > sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct > _______________________________________________ > Bibdesk-users mailing list > Bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list Bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users