Developer discussion for Creative Commons technology and tools

[Jason Kivlighn <jkivlighn AT gmail.com>]

> 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