David Wright <lily...@lionunicorn.co.uk> writes: > On Thu 07 Jul 2016 at 00:52:53 (-0700), Andrew Bernard wrote: >> This may be the standard, but it is woefully ambiguous, and text-centric. >> In the case of a music composition, is is the composer or the engraver? Is >> the ‘document’ the music, or the setting of it? > > Neither. It's the PDF document itself. > >> Setting Author to the name of the composer does not make it clear to >> anybody who the composer is. These PDF standards may be iron clad rulings, >> but they are not well thought out for non-text works. > > But the metadata to which "Author" belongs is the *document* metadata, > not contents metadata. Document metadata is a level above any > consideration of what the document's contents might represent. The > designers carefully included this metadata for document handling, and > gave you Metadata Streams for any sort of *content* handling you might > wish for. They had their thinking-hats on. :) > > There's no problem with LP adding extra keys for content metadata, > except that many programs will ignore it and not make it available > to you. So, for example, pdfinfo (Glyph & Cog, LLC) ignores the > Poet that LP can include. > > BTW one of the odd "assumptions" made in LP is in that variable called > poet. What about compositions whose lyrics are prose?
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