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From: Hans Hagen via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
To: Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>
Subject: Re: issue importing metadata from PDF
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2021 19:14:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9d354ec0-b2ca-6f91-475d-95190e330e7e@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e44714bf-23ed-a3ef-2a04-f6a3fe1b1da2@gmx.es>

On 11/12/2021 6:53 PM, Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context wrote:
> Hans,
> 
> I have a PDF document (which I didn’t generate) and it contains the
> following objects:
> 
>    1 0 obj
>    <<
>      /Title 272 0 R
>      /Producer 273 0 R
>      /Creator 274 0 R
>      /CreationDate 275 0 R
>      /ModDate 275 0 R
>    >>
>    endobj
> 
>    272 0 obj
>    (This is an important title)
>    endobj
> 
>    273 0 obj
>    (Mac OS X 10.12.1 Quartz PDFContext)
>    endobj
> 
>    274 0 obj
>    (Keynote)
>    endobj
> 
>    275 0 obj
>    (D:20161108071428Z00'00')
>    endobj
> 
> I cannot import these objects, since they are tables instead of strings,
> after checking that with:
> 
>    \startluacode
>    function document.transfer_metadata(name)
>      local main_doc = lpdf.epdf.load(name)
>      context(type(main_doc.Info.ModDate))
>      context(type(main_doc.Info.Title))
>    end
>    \stopluacode
> 
> Would it be possible that LMTX can deal with these objects and import
> them as strings?

They are tables because in lua objects are like tables. Doesn't

    context(tostring(main_doc.Info.ModDate))

work?

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-11-12 18:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-11-12 17:53 Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context
2021-11-12 18:14 ` Hans Hagen via ntg-context [this message]
2021-11-12 18:24   ` Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context
2021-11-12 19:04     ` Hans Hagen via ntg-context
2021-11-12 19:31       ` Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context

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