Re: PHP class or functions to manipulate PDF metadata?

Peter Ford wrote: > O. Lavell wrote: >> Peter Ford wrote: [..] >>> I do accept that the metadata should be machine-readable: that part of >>> your project is reasonable and I'm fairly sure that ought to be >>> possible with something simple. The best bet I found so far is PDFTK >>> (http://www.pdfhacks.com/pdftk/) which is a command-line tool that you >>> could presumably call with exec or whatever... >> >> Like I said, this is what I am already doing with the pdfinfo utility >> from xpdf. > > Sorry - I guess I didn't read that bit carefully enough... No problem at all, I was really glad someone wanted to share their thoughts anyway after it first seemed that no one was interested. [..] >> So thank you again for pushing me in that direction, even if >> unintentionally and despite the fact that what I am doing goes against >> your judgement ;) >> >> > As I know only too well, you can't always choose your customers > (especially if they choose you...) and you certainly can't control all > of the sources of data you have to deal with! Exactly. > I have spent many hours/days/possibly longer hacking through files that > are in one form to get data into another, and PDF is the one that always > makes me nervous :( So far you, Tedd and I agree on this. The so-called portable document format is a rather convoluted thing. > My judgement is certainly not final, or even particularly important: if > I had time I would also look into at least getting the metadata with > pure PHP. > > Good luck... Thank you. If I did have the time (to spare) I would feel almost obliged to try to figure it out. Perhaps in a week or two...