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Originally Posted by darkbeanies
Yes, I mean it does not update metadata tags in my pdfs, even if and especially when exported to disk.
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You might want to check the pdf metadata writer plugin to ensure it is enabled. Calibre does update metadata in the vast majority of pdfs when they are exported via one of calibre's export tools. Grabbing the book from the library via a file manager is not exporting the file. Since the copy in the library itself isn't exported don't expect that copy to have updated metadata. Metadata in the book is updated when you use the following features to export the book out of calibre:
Save to disk
Send to device
Connect to folder
and since stason17 included it getting a book via the Content server.
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Originally Posted by darkbeanies
I think I agree! I don't like having the metadata in a separate .opf file.
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It is not something to like or dislike, the metadata.opf file you see in every book folder is used to rebuild the metadata.db file in case of corruption of that file. Other times folks choose to Save the opf to disk with their book because their book may not be a format that all of the metadata calibre collects can be written to.
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Originally Posted by darkbeanies
But, I've been having a lot of luck brute force embedding the tags directly into the pdfs like i said, with exiftool and calibre command line tools.
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I'm glad you found something that works for you. What calibre command line tools do you use?
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Originally Posted by darkbeanies
Thanks for the replies, I guess everyone hates pdf huh?
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PDF is a fine format for the desktop and for printing, but it is not a reflowable ereader format. Because it is primarily a print format most of the time it doesn't convert well at all.
Read here for PDF conversion issues.