From: Daimrod <daimrod@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacs metadata editor for (mostly) scientific pdf's
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 22:14:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874niiywrj.fsf@casa.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: d9mwwakhi9.fsf@ada0.ifam.uni-hannover.de
Martin Rubey <axiomize@yahoo.de> writes:
> Hi there!
>
> I wonder whether anybody has tried or would like to try to adapt dired
> to manage pdf's metadata.
>
> Namely, I have a collection of files, organized in a simple directory
> structure by topic (as "algebra", "combinatorics", ...), which mostly
> works for me.
>
> I have a few tools (pdfmeat http://code.google.com/p/pdfmeat/, pdftk)
> that I may want to use on the files.
>
> The main problem is: instead of mode, owner, size, date I would rather
> like to see (and possibly edit) some fields from the file's metadata
> (eg. author, title) in addition to the filename.
>
> There is no way I could write this, but I'd be happy to fiddle around a
> little...
Do you know any tools usable from the command line to extract this
information?
Though I don't know how easy it is to customize the attributes show by
dired, I think it wouldn't be difficult to add a shortcut to display
some information about specific files in another buffer or via `message'.
> Best,
>
> Martin
--
Daimrod/Greg
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-15 21:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-15 7:55 emacs metadata editor for (mostly) scientific pdf's Martin Rubey
2013-01-15 21:14 ` Daimrod [this message]
2013-01-16 8:22 ` Martin Rubey
2013-01-16 10:38 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
[not found] ` <mailman.17600.1358332613.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-01-16 10:46 ` Martin Rubey
2013-01-16 11:10 ` Rainer M Krug
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