Re: PDF author metadata

[Christopher R. Maden]

On 07/07/2016 02:23 AM, David Kastrup wrote:
> Federico Bruni <address@hidden> writes:
> > Who should be in your opinion the author of a LilyPond score PDF? The
> > composer or the typesetter?
>
> Usefulness does not come into play here as long as there is a standard.
> The PDF standard states:
>
> Key          Type        Value
> Author       text string (Optional) The name of the person who created the 
> document.

“[T]he person who created the document” is extremely ambiguous.  Is “the 
document” the composition, the score, the arrangement... ?  The 
philosophers with whom I work can (and do!) spend years debating these 
things.

The shortest realistic answer is that whoever creates the PDF decides 
who the “author” of that PDF is; if they don’t care enough to credit 
someone else, then it’s them, or no one at all.

~Chris
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