From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mo-p00-ob.rzone.de (mo-p00-ob.rzone.de [81.169.146.161]) by krisdoz.my.domain (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id p1RJZOu7013825 for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2011 14:35:24 -0500 (EST) X-RZG-AUTH: :JiIXek6mfvEEUpFQdo7Fj1/zg48CFjWjQv0cW+St/nW/afgnrylriWJDMFgIdA== X-RZG-CLASS-ID: mo00 Received: from britannica.bec.de (ip-109-42-26-16.web.vodafone.de [109.42.26.16]) by post.strato.de (cohen mo50) (RZmta 25.5) with (DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA encrypted) ESMTPA id z06271n1RIrckB for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2011 20:35:21 +0100 (MET) Received: by britannica.bec.de (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sun, 27 Feb 2011 20:35:20 +0100 Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 20:35:20 +0100 From: Joerg Sonnenberger To: tech@mdocml.bsd.lv Subject: Re: remove private information from user documents Message-ID: <20110227193520.GA20226@britannica.bec.de> Mail-Followup-To: tech@mdocml.bsd.lv References: <20110227191439.GE12815@iris.usta.de> X-Mailinglist: mdocml-tech Reply-To: tech@mdocml.bsd.lv MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110227191439.GE12815@iris.usta.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) 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 -- To unsubscribe send an email to tech+unsubscribe@mdocml.bsd.lv