[XeTeX] PDF Creator: "bidi"?

Andreas Matthias andreas.matthias at gmail.com
Thu Mar 11 21:01:43 CET 2010


Jonathan Kew wrote:

> 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.

I totally agree.

Ciao
Andreas



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