[XeTeX] pdfauthor, pdftitle etc. in XeTeX

[Jonathan Kew]

On 20 Oct 2004, at 1:18 pm, Dirk-Jan Dekker wrote:

> Hi XeTeX users,
>
> In my LaTeX documents I used to define the author and title of the 
> resulting .pdf document with a command from the hyperref package: 
> \hypersetup{pdfauthor=AUTHOR, pdftitle=TITLE}.
>
> Unfortunately this does not work in XeTeX, presumably because xdv2pdf 
> does not know about pdfauthor, pdfsubject and the like.

Right. Those are pdfTeX extensions.

>  On the other hand, XeTeX automatically inserts rather ugly pdftitles 
> like "XeTeX output 2004.09.23:1519".
>
> So what I'd like to know is: is there a way to define pdfauthor and 
> pdfsubject yourself when working with XeTeX? Of course, *after* 
> compilation these data can be entered in the .pdf document with, for 
> example, Adobe Acrobat. But can it be done in the .tex source?
>

Not at present. The CoreGraphics PDF-generation APIs have very limited 
support for PDF metadata... and to complicate matters, if you use the 
pdfmark-based support for hyperlinks/bookmarks, even that metadata 
currently gets discarded during the post-processing that adds these 
features to the PDF.

JK