Re: [docbook-apps] Metadata in FO?

[Chris Ridd <chrisridd@mac.com>]

On 5 Feb 2008, at 18:01, W. Martin Borgert wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 03:40:33PM +0000, Chris Ridd wrote:
>> On 5 Feb 2008, at 13:33, W. Martin Borgert wrote:
>>> is there a way to get DocBook XML metadata into the PDF
>>> metadata? Information such as Title, Author, Keywords? Or is it
>>> all lost in the FO stage? TIA!
>>
>> It depends on the FO processor - they usually support PIs that let  
>> you
>> include PDF metadata; the docbook xsl stylesheets already know to  
>> write
>> the correct PIs for FOP and XEP. (Maybe other processors, but I've  
>> tried
>> those two.)
>
> How would I activate those PIs for use with FOP? I tried
> fop.extensions and fop1.extensions w/o success. TIA!

Looking again at one of the docs we generate with fop, and while it  
has the PDF outline it doesn't have the title/author stuff set after  
all. Sorry to mislead you.

Apparently fop doesn't support doing that directly, according to <http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/faq.html#pdf-doc-properties 
 >.

You either have to post-process your PDF file, or use a different  
processor. XEP has worked very well for me in the past, though  
produces larger files than fop.

Cheers,

Chris