Re: PDF author metadata

[David Wright]

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?

Cheers,
David.