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paulzag · 07-21-2010, 08:54 AM

Thanks for this wonderful software. I'm playing around with it to manage all my documents. I have a lot of PDF's from FIBA.com

Calibre defaults to the current date when I add a pdf. I expect a pdf with a CreationDate to be imported in Calibre with that date as the Date and Publish date in Calibre's metadata. Am I not getting something?

Secondly it save the metadata back to the file I tried Save to disk in a single directory. But Calibre wrote a new renamed file (as the title changed) but I can't get the book record to link to the new file. Any suggestions?

As an aside does anybody know a utility for Windows or Linux to set the OS file creation date to the PDF metadata CreationDate? Lots that let me overwrite the metadata, but that's not the goal here.

Regards

Paul

07-21-2010, 08:54 AM	#1
paulzag Junior Member Posts: 5 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2010 Device: eMachines eM250, iPhone	PDF metadata CreationDate and Save to disk Thanks for this wonderful software. I'm playing around with it to manage all my documents. I have a lot of PDF's from FIBA.com Calibre defaults to the current date when I add a pdf. I expect a pdf with a CreationDate to be imported in Calibre with that date as the Date and Publish date in Calibre's metadata. Am I not getting something? Secondly it save the metadata back to the file I tried Save to disk in a single directory. But Calibre wrote a new renamed file (as the title changed) but I can't get the book record to link to the new file. Any suggestions? As an aside does anybody know a utility for Windows or Linux to set the OS file creation date to the PDF metadata CreationDate? Lots that let me overwrite the metadata, but that's not the goal here. Regards Paul