From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de>
To: tech@mdocml.bsd.lv
Subject: Re: remove private information from user documents
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 20:35:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110227193520.GA20226@britannica.bec.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110227191439.GE12815@iris.usta.de>
On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 08:14:39PM +0100, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> Theo noticed that mandoc(1) includes information about itself
> into PostScript and PDF documents it creates.
Like pretty much every other program that creates either format.
> I don't like that. Basically, what software i'm running, and which
> version, is private information about myself. I don't expect such
> information to end up in documents i'm creating.
I somewhat disagree. I don't care much about the version number, but at
least the creation program is useful enough. I'm not sure whether the
field is required by the specification for the preamble or not, but I
think it should be kept.
Joerg
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-27 19:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-27 19:14 Ingo Schwarze
2011-02-27 19:35 ` Joerg Sonnenberger [this message]
2011-02-27 22:40 ` Ingo Schwarze
2011-03-06 23:59 ` Kristaps Dzonsons
2011-02-28 0:30 ` Anthony J. Bentley
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