Smart Look: Specifying Title and Description

Hmm, I suppose you could pull the info from the PDF metadata, though I find that people rarely use those (I certainly don't :P)

I do like the idea of pulling the title from the link name -- very intuitive, and should work for majority of cases.

Some of the other possible options I can think of:

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  Append the title and description to the link, like you mentioned, but have a character limit (~50 for title ~100-200 for description?) for each attribute, so that URLs don't get too long.
  


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  Perhaps we can include a javascript array/json object on the page with the details for each document, eg:
  
  
var documents = [ { 'document':'http://url.com/doc1.pdf', 'title': 'Document Title 1', 'description': 'This is a description for Document 1', 'tags': 'tag1, tag2, tag3, etc.' }, { 'document':'http://url.com/doc2.doc', 'title': 'Document Title 2', 'description': 'This is a description for Document 2. Its a little longer.', 'tags': 'tag1, tag2, tag3, etc.' }, ... ]

  


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  In the case of really large document libraries, perhaps we can submit an xml file with the approporate information for each document that's stored within our profiles and matched with the appropriate document when it's uploaded/converted.
  

I suppose the latter two are getting somewhat complex, and take away from the whole "Smart Look is easy" aspect. Though having some advanced customization options would be great (but I guess Issuu is probably reserving all the good stuff for all their Pro users ;)).

I am not to worried abotu the descritpion field but the title field I am... I woudl liek to use the RSS capabilities on my sites news feed but the titles that show up from ISSUU give you no idea what the publication is sometime. At least if the title was the same as the pdf title we would be in better shape.

There should be an option to edit a publication from smartlook and then turn it live. So a user clicks on it after it has been uploaded, it goes to issuu, converts, then I log-in review the document title, description and make sure it is what I want then publish it. Then we users click on it in the site it is named properly and the RSS feed is clean as well.