01-25-2009, 02:59 PM | #1 |
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Transfering Metadata help
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I have many pdfs (mainly technical whitepapers), the names of the titles of which are sometimes far from meaningful. As I cannot edit the PDF to make the titles mean something to me, I though I could get a similar effect using Calibre. 1: I add all of the pdf files to the Cailbre Library on my PC (WinXP SP3) 2: I then deleted removed via Calibre all my pdf books (mistake I know) 3: Using Caliber, I painstakingly edit each book, making the title more meaingfull and adding tags allowing for automatic creation of collection.s on the sony 4: I then send using the books to device to my prs-505 5: After books are transferred I unplug reader from computer The Problem: The changes I made do not appear to be transferred along with the pdf books. So the titles revert back to the original meaningless titles. Tags seems to be transferred which so I get collecyions created. Anyone know if I am doing something wrong or how to achieve meaningful titles without having to edit on the reader directly via Calibre. Thanks |
01-25-2009, 03:16 PM | #2 |
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This is a known problem with transferring pdf,txt files, where the reader insists on regenerating the metadata from the original file, overwriting any changes in calibre.
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01-26-2009, 01:21 AM | #3 |
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Thank You. Are you saying this is not a problem with other formats, epub, rtf or lrf?
If this is the case I could convert the pdf's to another format the Sony supports. Thanks for your hekp |
01-28-2009, 05:10 AM | #4 | |
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Now before sending a pdf file with calibre, I first edit the meta-data with a freeware called A-PDF INFO Changer using Wine on my Ubuntu. After that, I remarked that my changes are taken into account in a stable way. Hope this could help. Last edited by roger64; 01-28-2009 at 05:12 AM. Reason: typo |
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01-28-2009, 09:35 AM | #5 |
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Try the 'update_info' option of pdftk. There should be a package in your distro ('pdftk' in Debian, so hopefully Ubuntu too?).
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01-28-2009, 11:16 AM | #6 |
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03-05-2009, 07:48 PM | #8 |
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FYI, this happens with PRC files as well. I can convert them to MOBI and then upload to get correct metadata, but that's annoying. Any idea when this will be fixed?
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03-06-2009, 12:59 AM | #9 |
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This is a problem in the Reader software - not in Calibre.
The solution is to edit the original file using some appropriate tool (not caliber). Last edited by itimpi; 03-06-2009 at 01:12 AM. |
03-06-2009, 02:52 AM | #10 |
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The PRC files you're having trouble with are obsolete and have no support for setting metadata which is why this happens. The only solution is to convert them
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Sorry, I was under the impression that Calibre would modify the metadata on export. Makes sense that it can't if it's confined to the file itself.
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it does but not all files support setting metadata
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03-06-2009, 11:06 AM | #13 |
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Rodger dodger. Ugh, I hate format wars...
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