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Re: AsciiDoctor PDF: Setting PDF metadata Description field from the adoc file

Posted by mojavelinux on Apr 23, 2021; 5:21pm
URL: https://discuss.asciidoctor.org/AsciiDoctor-PDF-Setting-PDF-metadata-Description-field-from-the-adoc-file-tp8594p8595.html

James,

I'm glad to hear the PDF converter is useful in your documentation efforts!

Here's the metadata that Asciidoctor PDF adds to the PDF:

https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor-pdf/blob/2ea25e8c353197301750e423d0d65ce27f0b93f1/lib/asciidoctor/pdf/converter.rb#L573-L598

Notice that the Producer field is set to match the author specified on the document.

The description attribute is not currently mapped. In reading the PDF 1.7 specification, I do not see a field that could accept this information. If you know of one, please enlighten me and I'd be happy to consider adding it.

Best Regards,

-Dan

On Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 11:11 AM jamesh [via Asciidoctor :: Discussion] <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hello all,

Finding AD PDF very useful in our documentation efforts, but have a question on setting PDF metadata.

I can set author, keywords and the title is set to the title of the document which is fine, but I have been unable to find a way of setting the Description field directly from the adoc (I can post process with exiftool or similar but that is a PITA), and it would also be useful to be able to set the Producer etc.

I may have just missed this in the documentations, but my google foo hasn't found anything, so any pointers welcome

James

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