[Bug 667409] Re: Cannot influence encoding of generated pdf metadata (such as with -encoding arg)

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** Changed in: imagemagick (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

** Changed in: imagemagick (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => broucaries (roucaries-bastien+bugs)

** Also affects: imagemagick
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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Title:
  Cannot influence encoding of generated pdf metadata (such as with
  -encoding arg)

Status in ImageMagick - Convert, Edit and Compose Images:
  New
Status in “imagemagick” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: imagemagick

  Kubuntu 10.04, imagemagick package version 7:6.5.7.8-1ubuntu1.

  I have a document scanner (Canon P-150) which I use to scan all
  incoming bills, letters etc. I use scanimage (from sane-utils) to scan
  them into .tiff files. I then use convert to compress the images into
  85% quality jpegs, and then finally into pdf files. I am Swedish, so I
  when I name the files they often contain international characters,
  notably the Scandinavian å ä and ö.

      $ convert -compress jpeg -quality 85 page1.tiff page2.tiff
  documentåäöÅÄÖ.pdf

  The resulting pdf file has some automatically generated pdf metadata
  tags that I can't set; title and producer. They seem to be written
  using some naïve encoding that doesn't work well with my Swedish
  alphabet. An example of pdfinfo output from the "documentåäöÅÄÖ.pdf"
  document generated with the above command;

      Title:          documentåäöÖ×Ì.pdf

  This is also the title of the document when opened in Okular and other
  programs.

  convert doesn't seem to listen to the -encoding argument in this case,
  so I cannot simply use "-encoding UTF-8" when generating the
  documents. (Nor can I set the metadata tags manually, which would be
  even nicer.)

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