[pdftex] /pdfinfo {/Producer (foo)} not working

Hans Hagen pragma at wxs.nl
Thu Feb 22 09:01:33 CET 2001


At 07:18 PM 2/21/01 +0100, Martin Schröder wrote:
>On 2001-02-21 19:04:35 +0100, Han The Thanh wrote:
>> > Dictionaries in PDF have no defined order; the value of a
>> > multiple defined key is undefined per spec -- but most likely the
>> > first entry in the PDF file is taken.
>> 
>> yes indeed.
>> 
>> > The reason for this misfeature is here:
>> 
>> I want to make sure the Producer key is fixed
>
>If the order of statements were changed as by the patch the
>/Producer(pdfTeX) would still be included -- but _after_ any
>Producer key from the document, i.e. the document could override
>the key.
 
But that is exactly what is not wanted, since pdftex is the producer. You
can always use the other fields to smuggle your name into the doc. 

Hans  
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