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darkbeanies · 08-01-2011, 03:44 PM

Hello, just started organizing my ebook collection and started using calibre. Though I find it useful in many ways, I find it seems unable to write the tags it downloads to actual pdf metadata.

I couldn't quite work out from the various threads whether calibre is supposed to be able to do this or not. Can someone clarify this for me?

My solution so far has been to use calibredb database export function and exiftool to generate a list of tags and the corresponding files, along with a bash script to assign the appropriate tags to all the pdfs at once which, amazingly, (considering my scripting skills) actually works. Well, 99% of the time, anyway.

Just wondered if anyone has a better solution...

Thanks!

08-01-2011, 03:44 PM	#1
darkbeanies Member Posts: 23 Karma: 10 Join Date: Aug 2011 Device: none	Yet more PDF tags metadata questions... Hello, just started organizing my ebook collection and started using calibre. Though I find it useful in many ways, I find it seems unable to write the tags it downloads to actual pdf metadata. I couldn't quite work out from the various threads whether calibre is supposed to be able to do this or not. Can someone clarify this for me? My solution so far has been to use calibredb database export function and exiftool to generate a list of tags and the corresponding files, along with a bash script to assign the appropriate tags to all the pdfs at once which, amazingly, (considering my scripting skills) actually works. Well, 99% of the time, anyway. Just wondered if anyone has a better solution... Thanks!