Re: CreationDate in PDF files' metadata

Bob Stayton <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.text.docbook.apps
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Filippo,

Information about embedding metadata in fo output which goes to the PDF 
is found here:

https://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/2.3/metadata.html

The data can be changed by customizing this template found in fo/fop1.xsl:

<xsl:template name="fop1-document-information">

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
[email protected]

On 3/28/2019 4:06 AM, Filippo Rusconi wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I document my software using DocBook5 in a Debian GNU/Linux box. When 
> the PDF
> files are generated, the CreationDate field gets filled-up using a new 
> value at
> each run. This is a problem in our Debian effort to have "reproducible 
> builds"
> [0] with the "forensic science" idea that the same code should produce 
> the same
> binaries bit-by-bit [1].
>
> It seems that FOP is responsible for filling-in the CreationDate field.
> Are you aware of a method to direct FOP in some manner to fill-in that
> CreationDate with a constant value?
>
> Thank you for your kind attention,
>
> Sincerely,
> Filippo
>
> 0 
> https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/rb-pkg/unstable/amd64/msxpertsuite.html
> 1 https://reproducible-builds.org/
>
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