Re: Setting the author header changes the Creator metadata field

On Thu, Mar 27, 2025 at 10:30 PM Coco Liliace via bug-lilypond <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Setting the author header in a document changes the Creator metadata
> field in the generated pdf to the author.
>
> I would like to set the author field while keeping the default creator
> value: LilyPond {version}.
>
> Reproducible example:
> ```ly
> \version "2.25.24"
>
> \header {
>         author  "Me"
> }
>
> \fixed c {
>         c
> }
> ```
>
> exiftool shows that both the Author and Creator are set to "Me".
> The expected behaviour should be that the Author is set to "Me" and
> Creator defaults to "LilyPond 2.25.24" as it should be unaffected by the
> author header.
> lilypond of the same version)
>

Using your example and LilyPond 2.25.25 on Ubuntu, I see "Me" as the author
and "LilyPond 2.25.25" as the creator, so something else is going on.
Please continue this discussion on [email protected].

-- 
Knute Snortum