Scribus Document Information

Overview

There are a two points to consider in the “Document Information” panel:

  1. The fields in the first tab are used in PDF export. These data can be used by special indexing servers that can index PDF files, as well as Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader.
  2. Scribus supports an initiative called the Dublin Core Initiative. Dublin Core, for short, is a set of specifications for document metadata.

In the first tab, “Document”, you can enter PDF metadata. Note that these are also a subset of Dublin Core:


PDF Document Information

The second tab is called “Further Information” and contains fields as defined by the Dublin Core specifications:


Dublin Core Properties

Publisher The person or organization responsible for making the document available or for putting into print.
Contributors A person or organization responsible for making contributions to the content of the document.
Date A date associated with an event in the life cycle of the document, in YYYY-MM-DD format, as per ISO 8601.
Type The nature or genre of the content of the document, eg. categories, functions, etc.
Format The physical or digital manifestation of the document. Media type and dimensions would be worth noting. RFC2045,RFC2046 for MIME types are also useful here.
Identifier An unambiguous reference to the document within a given context such as ISBN or URI.
Source A reference to a document from which the present document is derived, eg. ISDN or URI.
Language The language in which the content of the document is written, usually a ISO-639 language code. Optionally suffixed with a hyphen and an ISO-3166 country code, eg. en-GB, fr-CH.
Relation A reference to a related document, possibly using a formal identifier such as a ISBN or URI.
Coverage The extent or scope of the content of the document, possibly including location, time and jurisdiction ranges.
Rights Information about rights held in and over the document, eg. copyright, patent or trademark.