Re: PDF author metadata

[David Kastrup]

Federico Bruni <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi all
>
> I'd like to edit this page of the documentation:
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/creating-pdf-metadata.html
>
> to add what I learned here:
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-lilypond/2016-07/msg00008.html
>
> I have another question on this subject.
> Who should be in your opinion the author of a LilyPond score PDF? The
> composer or the typesetter?
> Of course the answer depends on the use case.
> In my opinion having the composer (or arranger) as author is more
> useful, because you can filter the scores in your hard disk by author
> metadata if you use a document management software (such as Gnome
> Documents in Linux).

Usefulness does not come into play here as long as there is a standard.
The PDF standard states:

Key          Type        Value
Title        text string (Optional; PDF 1.1) The document’s title.
Author       text string (Optional) The name of the person who created the 
document.
Subject      text string (Optional; PDF 1.1) The subject of the document.
Keywords     text string (Optional; PDF 1.1) Keywords associated with the 
document.
Creator      text string (Optional) If the document was converted to PDF from 
another format,
                         the name of the conforming product that created the 
original document
                         from which it was converted.
Producer     text string (Optional) If the document was converted to PDF from 
another format,
                         the name of the conforming product that converted it 
to PDF.
CreationDate date        (Optional) The date and time the document was created, 
in human-
                         readable form (see 7.9.4, “Dates”).
ModDate      date        (Required if PieceInfo is present in the document 
catalogue;
                         otherwise optional; PDF 1.1) The date and time the 
document was
                         most recently modified, in human-readable form (see 
7.9.4, “Dates”).
Trapped      name        (Optional; PDF 1.3) [...]

> The advantage of an application such as Gnome Documents is that you
> can quickly access a PDF score without having to browse through
> folders in the file manager.

Still no point in ignoring the standard.

-- 
David Kastrup