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
> 
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