<html> <head> <base href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/"> </head> <body> <div> <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_NEW " title="NEW - Support XMP metadata for title, author etc." href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103530#c5">Comment # 5</a> on <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_NEW " title="NEW - Support XMP metadata for title, author etc." href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103530">bug 103530</a> from <a class="email" href="mailto:jose.aliste@gmail.com" title="Jose Aliste <jose.aliste@gmail.com>"> Jose Aliste</a> <pre>(In reply to Albert Astals Cid from <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=103530#c4">comment #4</a>) > (In reply to Jose Aliste from <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=103530#c3">comment #3</a>) > > We have discussed this in the list but never got to a conclusion. > > Do you have the email subject at hand? I do remember a discussion, but juts > couldn't find it. Actually, it's more or less the discussion we are having now. <a href="https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/poppler/2017-April/012171.html">https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/poppler/2017-April/012171.html</a> <a href="https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/poppler/2017-September/012596.html">https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/poppler/2017-September/012596.html</a> > > > For > > instance, for author there is the info in the catalog and the info in the > > XMP metadata. My understanding of the PDF spec says that if the XMP metadata > > is present, then the catalog data should be ignored. > > That is not correct, the rules are more complex as far as i remember. > Yeah, I just wanted to point out that since the rules are complex and belong to the pdf spec, we should probably implement them in poppler core. > > Because of that, I tend > > to believe that we need a "High Level API" to get the author that get the > > correct value that agrees with the pdf spec. Of course, it also makes sense > > to still have "Catalog->getAuthor" even if it's supposed to be ignored and > > we also have low level API to get the whole XMP metadata so we are covered > > there. This high level API would belong to poppler IMO since it's part of > > the PDF spec. The second question is whether we should provide > > implementations in each frontend or in core. > > > > Albert, how do you feel about introducing a dependency on a xml library > > (libxml2) for instance? so I can try to add a private high level api that > > could be shared by both glib and qt frontends? > > I guess that'd be ok thanks</pre> </div> <hr> You are receiving this mail because: <ul> <li>You are the assignee for the bug.</li> </ul> </body> </html>