[XeTeX] PDF Creator: "bidi"?

[Jonathan Kew]

On 11 Mar 2010, at 17:48, Meho R. wrote:

> As noted, because bidi isn't the creator of the PDF file and still claims it is. "Created by Xe(La)TeX with bidi package" (something like "Created by LaTeX with hyperref package") would be a little bit more acceptable, don't you think?

Personally, I think packages should not be doing this at all (though I believe hyperref has a long history of it). What if you use both hyperref *and* bidi -- who wins? What if every package author decides to start rewriting the Creator string?

The only time a package should override the default metadata is when the user explicitly specifies it, IMO.

JK

> From: Vafa Khalighi <vafa at users.berlios.de>
> To: Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms <xetex at tug.org>
> Sent: Thu, March 11, 2010 12:33:03 PM
> Subject: Re: [XeTeX] PDF Creator: "bidi"?
> 
> This is question for Vafa: can you explain what is the reason that in .pdf file, created using xelatex+polyglossia with use of arabic as secondary language (the main is latin), bidi is credited as "creator"? I do understand that bidi is used for arabic, but, with due respect, I think it's very unfair to declare it as creator application instead of xe(la)tex.
> 
> I have done this because someone in the past requested it. Why is this unfair? 
> 
> -- 
> Best wishes,
> Vafa Khalighi