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  • From: Jason Kivlighn <jkivlighn AT gmail.com>
  • To: Jon Phillips <jon AT rejon.org>
  • Cc: CC Developer Mailing List <cc-devel AT lists.ibiblio.org>, tracker-list AT gnome.org, jamie <jamiemcc AT blueyonder.co.uk>
  • Subject: Re: [cc-devel] [Tracker] Extracting Embedded Licenses
  • Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 23:34:41 -0700


> Is this the old msoffice file format? It would be great to also account
> for the new msxml and best practices for this. Is there any info on
> this?
>
Right, that's the old format. The CC add-in is only for the older
format, so I don't know how licenses are/could be handled in the new XML
format. I don't have the newest Office either.
>
>> pdf: Extends the pdf extractor to read a PDF's metadata stream and parse
>> it as XMP. I'm still awaiting poppler extending the glib bindings to
>> allow reading the metadata stream. Until then, it will simply never
>> find the metadata stream and go on without error.
>>
>
> Did you provide them a patch? Speed that ish up with patches!
>
I submitted the patch a few weeks ago, and after a little nagging, just
yesterday the patch was committed to CVS. It'll be in the next Poppler
release.
>
> Yes, totally doable. Look at how Inkscape handles SVG metadata currently
> and figure out best way to deal with current Inkscape method and also
> harmonize with our XMP ways.
I'll be looking into this.

Cheers,
Jason




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