Federico Bruni <f...@inventati.org> 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
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