Subject: Re: [Name Mangler Talk] Author and title from metadata

From: Rob Griffiths <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2013 20:26:51 -0700

On Oct 9, 2013, at 2:17 PM, Thomas Hodgson <[email-masked]> wrote:

> I would like to rename some PDFs to something like 'authors' + 'title' + 'date'. I'd like the author and date to come from the PDFs' metadata. The PDFs I make (using XeLaTeX) have the fields, but it looks like Name Mangler isn't able to use those fields. I'm asking because this seems like a really standard use case, so I suspect that I'm missing something.

Name Mangler can only 'see' metadata that OS X itself sees -- and this may or may not include the fields you're adding to your PDFs. You can check by opening Terminal, then doing:

$ cd /full/path/to/files/
$ mdls some_file.pdf

The output will show you which values OS X recognizes for the given file; these are (with a couple minor exceptions) the values you can us in Name Mangler.

regards,
-rob.

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From: Thomas Hodgson <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2013 14:17:55 -0700 (PDT)

I would like to rename some PDFs to something like 'authors' + 'title' + 
'date'. I'd like the author and date to come from the PDFs' metadata. The 
PDFs I make (using XeLaTeX) have the fields, but it looks like Name Mangler 
isn't able to use those fields. I'm asking because this seems like a really 
standard use case, so I suspect that I'm missing something.