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acidzebra · 08-07-2008, 05:40 AM

Oh? I thought that worked. Well, coming back to the original poster's automation wish, PDFtk can edit PDF metadata. It is commandline and cross-platform, too.

So if all your PDFs use a given naming format (say "author - title.pdf") automation would be possible. The script would have to do

1) pick apart the filename and store the results in a temporary text file formatted as follows:
InfoKey: Author
InfoValue: <AUTHORNAME>
InfoKey: Title
InfoValue: <BOOKTITLE>
2) Update the PDF metadata with pdftk's update_info function
3) delete the temporary file and restart from (1) with the next book

As long as your PDFs are named in a consistent fashion this would work.

08-07-2008, 05:40 AM	#6
acidzebra Liseuse Lover Posts: 869 Karma: 1035404 Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Netherlands Device: PRS-505	Oh? I thought that worked. Well, coming back to the original poster's automation wish, PDFtk can edit PDF metadata. It is commandline and cross-platform, too. So if all your PDFs use a given naming format (say "author - title.pdf") automation would be possible. The script would have to do 1) pick apart the filename and store the results in a temporary text file formatted as follows: InfoKey: Author InfoValue: <AUTHORNAME> InfoKey: Title InfoValue: <BOOKTITLE> 2) Update the PDF metadata with pdftk's update_info function 3) delete the temporary file and restart from (1) with the next book As long as your PDFs are named in a consistent fashion this would work.