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Re: PDF information issues
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Thomas Morley |
Subject: |
Re: PDF information issues |
Date: |
Wed, 5 Sep 2012 23:50:39 +0200 |
2012/9/5 Nick Payne <address@hidden>:
> On 06/09/12 04:25, Christopher R. Maden wrote:
>>
>> Poking around my system today, I noticed two interesting things about
>> the PDFs generated by LilyPond.
>>
>> 1) There is no metadata associated with the PDF. Well, the producer
>> and creator are set to the appropriate software. However, when a
>> top-level title is available (for a book or a score), it would be cool
>> to embed that in the PDF.
>>
>> 2) Conversely, the editing URIs embedded in the PDF represent a
>> security risk. If I share a PDF created with LilyPond, full absolute
>> file paths from my computer are exposed. Admittedly, this is a very,
>> very small risk, but it is still one to consider. I could not find a
>> command-line option to disable this; an option to make the paths
>> relative would also be useful, I think.
>
>
> You can put metadata fields in the header block, though this doesn't seem to
> be documented in the manuals. See example below. The fields prefaced with
> 'pdf' are metadata that doesn't appear in the printed output.
>
> The paths embedded in the PDF output are there so that while creating a
> score, with an appropriate editing environment you can click on an element
> in the PDF and jump to the location of that element in the ly source file.
> Adding \pointAndClickOff to the ly file before generating your final PDF for
> publication removes the paths in the final PDF.
>
> %=================
> \version "2.16.0"
>
> \pointAndClickOff
>
> \header {
> title = "Title of the piece"
> pdftitle = "This will appear in the metadata Title field"
> composer = "Composer of the piece"
> pdfcomposer = "This will appear in the metadata Author field"
> }
>
> \relative c' { c4 }
> %=================
>
> Nick
>
>
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see: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.17/Documentation/usage-big-page#point-and-click
-Harm
- PDF information issues, Christopher R. Maden, 2012/09/05
- Re: PDF information issues, Nick Payne, 2012/09/05
- Re: PDF information issues,
Thomas Morley <=
- Re: PDF information issues, Christopher R. Maden, 2012/09/05
- -dno-point-and-click undocumented (was: PDF information issues), Werner LEMBERG, 2012/09/06
- Re: -dno-point-and-click undocumented (was: PDF information issues), Stefan Vollmar, 2012/09/06
- Re: -dno-point-and-click undocumented, Werner LEMBERG, 2012/09/06
- Re: -dno-point-and-click undocumented, Stefan Vollmar, 2012/09/06
- Re: -dno-point-and-click undocumented (was: PDF information issues), Marek Klein, 2012/09/07
Re: PDF information issues, Reinhold Kainhofer, 2012/09/05