---
name: "odfmetadoc"
section: "1p"
platform: "linux"
package: "libopenoffice-oodoc-perl"
version: "2.125-4"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/odfmetadoc"
---

# odfmetadoc(1p)

Document properties management interface

## NAME

odfmetadoc - Document properties management interface

## SYNOPSIS

```
        odfmetadoc <directory>
```

## DESCRIPTION

Simple graphical user interface allowing the user to get and set the metadata of the OpenDocument and OpenOffice.org files (ODT, ODP, ODS, SXW, SXI, SXC,...) in a given directory.

The list of the files is shown in the main window. Each time the user selects a file (by double-clic or OK button), another window appears, with some property fields: title, author, subject, description, keywords. The flat text content is shown in a read-only field. The user can update any property, or insert/delete any keyword. A double-click on a word in the text content field appends the word to the keword list. 'OK' saves the changes in the file.

## LIMITS

This script is provided as a demo and test tool, with a very basic user interface. There is no directory selection dialog box. Some file names with blank spaces and/or non-ASCII characters are not properly processed by the graphical user interface in some environments (even if the OODoc API does support the same character sets as the local Perl installation).

## REQUIREMENTS

Requires Tk and some Tk extensions (TK::Dialog, Tk::LabFrame, Tk::LabEntry)