RE: PDF metadata (was: newbie querie)
The Document Information Dictionary object should cover what I need. I can put the metadata I have into subject and keyword fields. Excuse my ignorance but what is the best tool to do this? Thanks Gary -Original Message- From: Jeremias Maerki [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 09 May 2003 12:15 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: PDF metadata (was: newbie querie) Well, I think there's two kinds of metadata available in PDF. The chapter 9.2.1 (PDF spec) Document Information Dictionary object (represented by PDFInfo.java) which takes the basic values such as creator, title, keywords, etc. And there are metadata streams (chapter 9.2.2). These have not yet been implemented and I can't tell offhand how much work it would be to implement them. I guess it depends what exactly you need to place in the PDF. On 09.05.2003 12:56:38 Gary Marshall-Stevens wrote: I am building an app which needs to convert dwg files to pdf. I can plot to pdf from autocad but I need to insert some metadata into the pdf. Would FOP be of use to insert the metadata into the pdf after it has been created ? I was considering ploting to svg and then inserting metadata and using batik to generate the pdf. Any direction for this would be greatly appreciated. Jeremias Maerki - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PDF metadata
Jeremias Maerki wrote: Well, I think there's two kinds of metadata available in PDF. The chapter 9.2.1 (PDF spec) Document Information Dictionary object (represented by PDFInfo.java) which takes the basic values such as creator, title, keywords, etc. And there are metadata streams (chapter 9.2.2). These have not yet been implemented and I can't tell offhand how much work it would be to implement them. I guess it depends what exactly you need to place in the PDF. I've read the chapter 9.2.1 (PDF spec) Document Information Dictionary and still don't know how to leverage this piece of information. Must I use Java to add this meta-data to the PDF file, or can I do it from the command line interface? In other words, can it be done from within xsl-fo? What do the calls look like? Thanks! -- Clay Leeds - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Developer - Medata, Inc. - http://www.medata.com PGP Public Key: https://mail.medata.com/pgp/cleeds.asc - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: PDF metadata
Clay Leeds wrote: I've read the chapter 9.2.1 (PDF spec) Document Information Dictionary and still don't know how to leverage this piece of information. Must I use Java to add this meta-data to the PDF file, or can I do it from the command line interface? In other words, can it be done from within xsl-fo? What do the calls look like? I think the best way to do this would be with our FO extension mechanism, using the fox namespace. There are no calls to do this right now, but it will be pretty doable after we get the redesign done. (Its actually pretty doable now, but the redesign needs to take priority). Victor Mote - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PDF metadata
The only thing close to metadata in XSL-FO is fo:title on fo:page-sequence, I think. We would have to write a FOP extension (similar to outlines) to bring metadata over to the PDF document. (Maybe this would also be a job for http://exslfo.sourceforge.net or XSL 1.1.) At the moment you can only do it with Java (on the PDFRenderer instance) and only with a small subset of values (setProducer()) if you don't hack the PDF renderer. On 09.05.2003 17:18:58 Clay Leeds wrote: Jeremias Maerki wrote: Well, I think there's two kinds of metadata available in PDF. The chapter 9.2.1 (PDF spec) Document Information Dictionary object (represented by PDFInfo.java) which takes the basic values such as creator, title, keywords, etc. And there are metadata streams (chapter 9.2.2). These have not yet been implemented and I can't tell offhand how much work it would be to implement them. I guess it depends what exactly you need to place in the PDF. I've read the chapter 9.2.1 (PDF spec) Document Information Dictionary and still don't know how to leverage this piece of information. Must I use Java to add this meta-data to the PDF file, or can I do it from the command line interface? In other words, can it be done from within xsl-fo? What do the calls look like? Jeremias Maerki - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PDF metadata
Victor Mote wrote: I think the best way to do this would be with our FO extension mechanism, using the fox namespace. There are no calls to do this right now, but it will be pretty doable after we get the redesign done. (Its actually pretty doable now, but the redesign needs to take priority). Victor Mote I've never used FOP's extensions, although I keep threatening to play around a bit with Bookmarks. Here's an example from the FOP site: fo:root xmlns:fo=http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format; xmlns:fox=http://xml.apache.org/fop/extensions; fox:outline internal-destination=sec3 fox:labelRunning FOP/fox:label fox:outline internal-destination=sec3-1 fox:labelPrerequisites/fox:label /fox:outline fox:outline /fo:root Here're the supported PDF meta-data attributes: Title Author Subject Keywords Creator Producer CreationDate ModDate Trapped Here's the PDF Spec Example: Example 9.1 shows a typical document information dictionary. 1 0 obj /Title (PostScript Language Reference, Third Edition) /Author (Adobe Systems Incorporated) /Creator (Adobe FrameMaker 5.5.3 for Power Macintosh) /Producer (Acrobat Distiller 3.01 for Power Macintosh) /CreationDate (D:19970915110347-08'00') /ModDate (D:19990209153925-08'00') endobj Unfortunately, I don't know how to add these. Would I do something like this: fo:root xmlns:fo=http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format; xmlns:fox=http://xml.apache.org/fop/extensions; fox:metadata title=Nifty PDF Meta Data fox:metadata author=Clay Leeds fox:metadata creator=XMLSpy fox:metadata producer=Yahoo Serious fox:metadata creation-date=2003-05-09 fox:metadata modification-date=2003-05-09 /fo:root BTW, just as I was sending this, Jeremias' e-mail came through. I don't know if this stuff has any bearing (or might help make it so), but here it is... -- Clay Leeds - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Developer - Medata, Inc. - http://www.medata.com PGP Public Key: https://mail.medata.com/pgp/cleeds.asc - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: PDF metadata
Clay Leeds wrote: Here're the supported PDF meta-data attributes: Title Author Subject Keywords Creator Producer CreationDate ModDate Trapped Here's the PDF Spec Example: Example 9.1 shows a typical document information dictionary. 1 0 obj /Title (PostScript Language Reference, Third Edition) /Author (Adobe Systems Incorporated) /Creator (Adobe FrameMaker 5.5.3 for Power Macintosh) /Producer (Acrobat Distiller 3.01 for Power Macintosh) /CreationDate (D:19970915110347-08'00') /ModDate (D:19990209153925-08'00') endobj Unfortunately, I don't know how to add these. Would I do something like this: fo:root xmlns:fo=http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format; xmlns:fox=http://xml.apache.org/fop/extensions; fox:metadata title=Nifty PDF Meta Data fox:metadata author=Clay Leeds fox:metadata creator=XMLSpy fox:metadata producer=Yahoo Serious fox:metadata creation-date=2003-05-09 fox:metadata modification-date=2003-05-09 /fo:root BTW, just as I was sending this, Jeremias' e-mail came through. I don't know if this stuff has any bearing (or might help make it so), but here it is... There are two issues. First, you need a way to tell the FOP session what metadata to embed in the PDF. Second, FOP needs to be able to take that information and actually embed it. The fox code you have written above would be one way to handle the first issue. The second issue will require some modifications to FOP (i.e. java programming) which are probably not terrible difficult. Victor Mote - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
