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Originally Posted by Philosopher
When you said "natively" handles that - are you saying it AUTOMATICALLY is updating these fields WITHIN the PDF - by default?
Or are you saying it is something that you have to TURN ON - and then use PLUGBOARDS to tweak the particulars? Or is it that BOTH aspects are handled through plugboards?  |
I mean that calibre has native support for writing PDF metadata.
calibre will never write metadata to any format, however, except as dickloraine said -- if you export the book (e.g. send-to-device, send-to-email, save-to-disk) or use Embed Metadata (manually update all supported metadata in all supported formats) or Polish Books (manually update metadata and do a lot more, for EPUB and AZW3 only.)
Plugboards are an optional extra that allows you to redefine metadata fields, e.g. instead of calibre writing the title field to the book's title metadata, you can tell calibre to write "title (series, Book #)" to the book's internal title metadata.
Plugboards only take effect when exporting a book, not when using Embed Metadata/Polish Books.