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Jellby · 07-27-2009, 06:15 AM

I've finally installed Calibre in a new netbook I've got...

I have a couple of questions about PDFs.

When I import a PDF, it seems Calibre is not reading the metadata, instead the title is taken from the filename and the author is Unknown. The PDFs are created with LaTeX/hyperref (and they're uploaded to MR), and the title and author are seen by pdfinfo and ebook-meta. The PDF metadata reader plug-in is enabled, as far as I can tell, and the "read metadata from files" box is checked (it works fine for Mobi files), did I miss any other setting? Also, is there a way to re-read all metadata from a given file and assign it to the book entry?

I think I have read in some thread (no, it's in the changelog) that Calibre could read covers (that is, the first page) from PDF files, however my PDFs get only a generic cover assigned. Is there a way to automatically use the first page as cover? I'm only interested in the library management part of the program now, not on the conversion features.

07-27-2009, 06:15 AM	#1
Jellby frumious Bandersnatch Posts: 7,516 Karma: 18512745 Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Spaniard in Sweden Device: Cybook Orizon, Kobo Aura	PDF metadata and covers I've finally installed Calibre in a new netbook I've got... I have a couple of questions about PDFs. When I import a PDF, it seems Calibre is not reading the metadata, instead the title is taken from the filename and the author is Unknown. The PDFs are created with LaTeX/hyperref (and they're uploaded to MR), and the title and author are seen by pdfinfo and ebook-meta. The PDF metadata reader plug-in is enabled, as far as I can tell, and the "read metadata from files" box is checked (it works fine for Mobi files), did I miss any other setting? Also, is there a way to re-read all metadata from a given file and assign it to the book entry? I think I have read in some thread (no, it's in the changelog) that Calibre could read covers (that is, the first page) from PDF files, however my PDFs get only a generic cover assigned. Is there a way to automatically use the first page as cover? I'm only interested in the library management part of the program now, not on the conversion features.