Re: CreationDate in PDF files' metadata
Bob Stayton <[email protected]>
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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/ >