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Re: PDF author metadata
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Christopher R. Maden |
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Re: PDF author metadata |
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Thu, 7 Jul 2016 02:38:40 -0500 |
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On 07/07/2016 02:23 AM, David Kastrup wrote:
Federico Bruni <address@hidden> writes:
Who should be in your opinion the author of a LilyPond score PDF? The
composer or the typesetter?
Usefulness does not come into play here as long as there is a standard.
The PDF standard states:
Key Type Value
Author text string (Optional) The name of the person who created the
document.
“[T]he person who created the document” is extremely ambiguous. Is “the
document” the composition, the score, the arrangement... ? The
philosophers with whom I work can (and do!) spend years debating these
things.
The shortest realistic answer is that whoever creates the PDF decides
who the “author” of that PDF is; if they don’t care enough to credit
someone else, then it’s them, or no one at all.
~Chris
--
Chris Maden, text nerd <URL: http://crism.maden.org/ >
“If you’ve been a man o’ action, though you’re lying there in traction,
You will gain some satisfaction thinkin’, ‘Jesus, at least I tried.’”
— Andy M. Stewart (1952–2015), “Ramblin’ Rover”
- PDF author metadata, Federico Bruni, 2016/07/07
- Re: PDF author metadata, David Kastrup, 2016/07/07
- Re: PDF author metadata,
Christopher R. Maden <=
- Re: PDF author metadata, Andrew Bernard, 2016/07/07
- Re: PDF author metadata, Federico Bruni, 2016/07/07
- Re: PDF author metadata, David Wright, 2016/07/07
- Re: PDF author metadata, David Kastrup, 2016/07/07
- Re: PDF author metadata, Anthony Youngman, 2016/07/09
- Re: PDF author metadata, David Kastrup, 2016/07/10
- Re: PDF author metadata, J Martin Rushton, 2016/07/10
- Re: PDF author metadata, David Kastrup, 2016/07/10
- Re: PDF author metadata, J Martin Rushton, 2016/07/10