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Originally Posted by cybmole
surely low priority because
2. Most PDFs which have been added to calibre purely for library management will be "secured" by their authors i.e. no changes allowed, even to metadata
3. "secured" can be removed but Kovid does not do that stuff for obvious legal reasons, & we don't discuss i"how to " here, except very obscurely.
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Although some commercial books may be locked, the vast majority of PDF files in my Calibre library come from other sources and are unprotected.
For example, virtually 100% of documentation out in the world is in PDF format. Every electronic component data sheet, every software library manual, every court opinion, every white paper - they're all distributed as unprotected PDF files. And very rarely do those PDF files have correct metadata.
It's too bad, because those are exactly the files you're most likely to need to search for; they usually don't have visually distinctive covers. If you can't search by title, you're significantly handicapped.
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Originally Posted by cybmole
1. very few users would want to convert TO pdf via calibre.
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Even if that were true, why is it relevant? I have a lot of book-length PDF files in my world, and I would like to manage them as part of my Calibre library. It doesn't have anything to do with format conversion.
It seems strange to me that Calibre adjusts PDF metadata during some exports (e.g., Save to Disk) but not others (e.g., drag to iBooks). And given that Calibre is already capable of metadata adjustments, it's even stranger that it doesn't automatically synchronize the Calibre and PDF metadata whenever you edit metadata.
Is there a scenario in which this is
not the behavior you'd want?