arrufat / pdftag

A simple metadata editor for PDFs for Linux and Windows

Pdftag

A simple metadata editor for PDFs

Introduction

The main goal of Pdftag is to provide a simple and usable solution to edit metadata found in PDFs.

Other more complex solutions exist to manipulate PDFs, but they may have dependencies on Java and may be not completely free.

This project makes use of the poppler library for all the PDF information reading and writing.

It is written in Vala and GTK+, meaning it is fast and has a small memory footprint.

Features

Pdftag supports editing the following PDF tags:

• Title
• Author
• Subject
• Keywords
• Producer
• Creator
• Creation date
• Modification date

It also displays useful non-editable information:

• PDF format
• Number of pages

Compiling and installing

To build Pdftag you need the following dependencies (including development files):

• meson (build only)
• ninja (build only)
• vala (build only)
• gtk3
• poppler-glib

Then run

meson build --prefix=/usr/local (or your preferred installation prefix)
ninja -C build
ninja -C build install

pdftag's Issues

License installed in hardcoded path

Hi Adrià,

"merci beaucoup" for pdftag - very useful. One issue: in meson.build, the path you use for storing the license is hardcoded. In not all distro's this is a suitable place, and it would make most sense to install this in the path the user set with --prefix.

Reason I'm asking is that I've packaged pdftag for Nixos:

NixOS/nixpkgs#45666

In NixOS (and probably other distro's too) there is not such a path, making the build fail. So I manually have to patch the meson.build ...

Icons not loading, program crashes on Windows x64 v1.04

My problem

Hi, I'm having a problem with the v1.04 release on my Windows 7 64-bit machine. No icons are displaying, and when I click where I believe the "open file" button is based on the screenshot from the README, the program crashes.

What I did

1. I downloaded the v1.04 release (as that was the release with Windows binaries)
2. I extracted the files to C:\Users\Sam Cantrell\bin\pdftag
3. I ran pdftag.exe
4. The program opens, with no program icons shown except what appears to be a generic icon.
   
5. I click what I think is the "open file" button, as I don't see any tooltips.
   
6. The program crashes.

Submit to Flathub

Since you already have a Flatpak manifest, publishing the app on Flathub should be easy and would give you a lot more visibility ;)

https://github.com/flathub/flathub/wiki/App-Submission

Flatpak manifest

Hi,

I made a Flatpak manifest for pdftag.

{
  "id" : "com.github.arrufat.pdftag",
  "runtime" : "org.gnome.Platform",
  "runtime-version" : "3.28",
  "sdk" : "org.gnome.Sdk",
  "command" : "pdftag",
  "rename-desktop-file": "pdftag.desktop",
  "modules" : [
    {
      "name" : "poppler",
      "buildsystem" : "cmake",
      "config-opts" : [
        "-DENABLE_LIBOPENJPEG:STRING=none"
      ],
      "sources" : [
        {
          "url" : "https://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/poppler/poppler.git",
          "type" : "git"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name" : "pdftag",
      "buildsystem" : "meson",
      "sources" : [
        {
          "url" : "https://github.com/arrufat/pdftag",
          "type" : "git"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "cleanup" : [
    "/include",
    "/lib/pkgconfig"
  ],
  "finish-args" : [
    "--socket=wayland",
    "--socket=x11",
    "--share=ipc",
    "--filesystem=home"
  ]
}