[New-bugs-announce] [issue5901] missing meta-info in documentation pdf

[Vito De Tullio]

New submission from Vito De Tullio <vito.detullio at gmail.com>:

from http://docs.python.org/download.html and
http://docs.python.org/3.0/download.html you can download the python
documentation in many formats (html, pdf, txt), I think auto-generated
by the .rst source.

While html and txt does not, the pdf format, supports some simple
"meta-data" infos about the document: other than the number of pages,
the page size, the creator, etc... (all auto-filled) there are 4 "keys"
that the current pdf miss to fill and I think it's important: Title,
Subject, Keywords, and Author.

try, for example, to use the simple pdfinfo tool (from
http://poppler.freedesktop.org/) to inspect the current pdf

$ tar xvjf python-3.0.1-docs-pdf-a4.tar.bz2
$ cd docs-pdf
$ ls -1
c-api.pdf
distutils.pdf
documenting.pdf
extending.pdf
howto-advocacy.pdf
howto-cporting.pdf
howto-curses.pdf
howto-doanddont.pdf
howto-functional.pdf
howto-regex.pdf
howto-sockets.pdf
howto-unicode.pdf
howto-urllib2.pdf
howto-webservers.pdf
install.pdf
library.pdf
reference.pdf
tutorial.pdf
using.pdf
whatsnew.pdf
$ pdfinfo library.pdf
Title:
Subject:
Keywords:
Author:
Creator:        LaTeX with hyperref package
Producer:       pdfTeX-1.40.9
CreationDate:   Sat Feb 14 11:33:09 2009
ModDate:        Sat Feb 14 11:33:09 2009
Tagged:         no
Pages:          1077
Encrypted:      no
Page size:      595.276 x 841.89 pts (A4)
File size:      7556857 bytes
Optimized:      no
PDF version:    1.4

erh, what is supposed to contain "using.pdf"? and "distutils.pdf"?

(Yes, I know what they contain, but...)

If the pdf were "tagged", not only me, but also my OS will know what's
in these pdf (see nepomuk/strigi/tracker/beagle programs, helping me
find what I'm searching

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assignee: georg.brandl
components: Documentation
messages: 86931
nosy: ZeD, georg.brandl
severity: normal
status: open
title: missing meta-info in documentation pdf
type: resource usage
versions: Python 3.1

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