metadata.cfg

NAME

SYNOPSIS

AVAILABILITY

DESCRIPTION

FILEFORMAT

The file format is OPTION=VALUE

Between the OPTION , the = and the VALUE are no spaces.

You can comment out any OPTION or completely remove the related setting line to use the default settings.

OPTIONS

DATABASEDIR

change the location of the meta data database.

Example: DATABASEDIR=g:\docman\metadata-db

Default: DATABASEDIR=var\db\metadata

FASTPDFRESOLUTION

on slower machines the standard metadata resolution might me a bit slow. If you prioritize performance over information quantity, this setting can be set to True.

Example: FASTPDFRESOLUTION=True

Default: FASTPDFRESOLUTION=False

HIDEMETAFILE

using this setting the created *.meta file that is located beside the source file is hidden using the hidden attribute of Windows™.

Example: HIDEMETAFILE=True

Default: HIDEMETAFILE=False

WRITEMETAFILE

setting this configuration option to False will prevent to write the *.meta file beside the source file. In this case the meta information is only written to the meta data "database".

Do not set this setting to False if you plan to create a bibliography HTML file using the bibliography(1) command.

Example: WRITEMETAFILE=False

Default: WRITEMETAFILE=True

TEMPLATEDIR

change the meta data template directory.

For each file suffix an own template can be provided, e.g. if an extra template for .pptx files is needed, save a file with the name metadata.pptx.meta.

The default template file must be saved as metadata.default.meta.

Example: TEMPLATEDIR=g:\docman\templates

Default: TEMPLATEDIR=etc

MINIMALFILESIZE

If a file is smaller then MINIMALFILESIZE bytes (~characters) it will be skipped.

As absolute minimum the MINIMALFILESIZE can be set to a value of 8.

Example: MINIMALFILESIZE=256

Default: MINIMALFILESIZE=80

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