Missing FPDF_SetMetaText API?

[Stephen Cross]

I noticed that there's an FPDF_GetMetaText API (for getting document metadata, such as title, author, etc.), but there isn't an FPDF_SetMetaText API.

From the looks of it this is just a lack of a public C API? I was looking at a Ruby binding for PDFium (admittedly quite old code), and it seemed to reach in to the CPDF_Document, so I assume PDFium clients have to use the C++ API for this.

Assuming this is correct, would it be reasonable to add an FPDF_SetMetaText API alongside the FPDF_GetMetaText API in public/fpdf_doc.h? Assuming I have time to do this at some point, I should submit the patch to https://bugs.chromium.org/p/pdfium/issues/list ?

[Lei Zhang]

Oftentimes getter APIs appear first, before setter APIs. It is
probably not too hard to add such an API. This feature request already
exists as https://crbug.com/pdfium/1471. If you want to submit code to
add the API, please don't attach a patch to the issue tracker.
Instead, follow the process in
https://pdfium.googlesource.com/pdfium/+/master/CONTRIBUTING.md.

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[Lothar Scholz]

Metadata extraction can be much more complicated then what is possible with the simple Pdfium  API. Please use Adobes open source  XMP (extensible metadata platform) library for maximum compatibility.

[Lei Zhang]

Please file a feature request. https://bugs.chromium.org/p/pdfium/issues/entry

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