From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Daimrod Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs metadata editor for (mostly) scientific pdf's Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 22:14:08 +0100 Organization: les newsgroups par Orange Message-ID: <874niiywrj.fsf@casa.home> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1358284516 27782 80.91.229.3 (15 Jan 2013 21:15:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 21:15:16 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 15 22:15:33 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TvDr1-0000Tp-C8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Jan 2013 22:15:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34526 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TvDqk-0006py-SG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Jan 2013 16:15:14 -0500 X-Received: by 10.180.100.74 with SMTP id ew10mr1131987wib.7.1358284393979; Tue, 15 Jan 2013 13:13:13 -0800 (PST) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!m1no11579913wiv.0!news-out.google.com!i11ni366271wiw.0!nntp.google.com!feeder1.cambriumusenet.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!85.12.40.139.MISMATCH!xlned.com!feeder7.xlned.com!news2.euro.net!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder1.enfer-du-nord.net!usenet-fr.net!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!193.252.117.184.MISMATCH!feeder.news.orange.fr!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:dVWCnMvyTEi+mnXapweM9Zav3W4= Original-Lines: 34 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 15 Jan 2013 22:13:13 CET Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 90.54.99.148 Original-X-Trace: 1358284393 reader.news.orange.fr 9020 90.54.99.148:2917 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@orange.fr Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:196338 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:88637 Archived-At: Martin Rubey 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