How to set properties of type "Lang alt"?

Hubert Figuiere hub at figuiere.net
Fri Aug 22 06:51:04 PDT 2008


On Fri, 2008-08-22 at 09:25 +0200, Christoph Dalitz wrote:
> This could be a hint to the source of the problem. I have noticed that
> the size of the PDF file does not change, even when some properties
> are
> successfully set. Moreover it is not possible to add XMP data to a PDF
> file that does not yet have any XMP data stream (like PDFs created
> with
> ghostscript 8.51); in that case xmp_files_can_put_xmp returns false).

That's the expected behaviour.

> Does anyone know of a third party tool for adding an XMP data stream
> to a PDF file (so that exempi afterwards can update the XMP data)?
> 

That's deliberate from Adobe to not have put that in XMP SDK: they don't
want to compete with their "for-or-fee" PDF SDK.

I guess that is something that has to be written for exempi :-)
To be honest it is very low on my list, but I'd love a patch :-)

Hub



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