On 11 Mar 2010, at 17:48, Meho R. wrote:

> As noted, because bidi isn't the creator of the PDF file and still claims it 
> is. "Created by Xe(La)TeX with bidi package" (something like "Created by 
> LaTeX with hyperref package") would be a little bit more acceptable, don't 
> you think?

Personally, I think packages should not be doing this at all (though I believe 
hyperref has a long history of it). What if you use both hyperref *and* bidi -- 
who wins? What if every package author decides to start rewriting the Creator 
string?

The only time a package should override the default metadata is when the user 
explicitly specifies it, IMO.

JK

> From: Vafa Khalighi <[email protected]>
> To: Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms <[email protected]>
> Sent: Thu, March 11, 2010 12:33:03 PM
> Subject: Re: [XeTeX] PDF Creator: "bidi"?
> 
> This is question for Vafa: can you explain what is the reason that in .pdf 
> file, created using xelatex+polyglossia with use of arabic as secondary 
> language (the main is latin), bidi is credited as "creator"? I do understand 
> that bidi is used for arabic, but, with due respect, I think it's very unfair 
> to declare it as creator application instead of xe(la)tex.
> 
> I have done this because someone in the past requested it. Why is this 
> unfair? 
> 
> -- 
> Best wishes,
> Vafa Khalighi




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