From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Martin Rubey Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: emacs metadata editor for (mostly) scientific pdf's Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 08:55:10 +0100 Organization: Linux Private Site Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1358236828 20350 80.91.229.3 (15 Jan 2013 08:00:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 08:00:28 +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 09:00:46 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 1Tv1Ro-00056d-Kz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Jan 2013 09:00:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43065 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tv1RV-00070r-2X for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Jan 2013 03:00:21 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!news-2.dfn.de!news.dfn.de!newsserver.rrzn.uni-hannover.de!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 22 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: ada0.ifam.uni-hannover.de Original-X-Trace: newsserver.rrzn.uni-hannover.de 1358236510 27991 130.75.17.184 (15 Jan 2013 07:55:10 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@newsserver.rrzn.uni-hannover.de Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 07:55:10 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:cn4YHttfw5JuUPGRktI/DHBpekk= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:196330 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:88629 Archived-At: 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... Best, Martin