Daniel - PDF-XChange wrote: ↑Wed Apr 09, 2025 6:06 pmIs there a specific reason that having quotation marks around this content is problematic for you? I see no reason why their existence should be an issue.
At the very least, it's weird. It's like if you were listing your friends and the list looked like this: Cruz Skinner, "Daisy Mcgee", Yousef Serrano, «Kaiden Hale» and Janet_Hanna. You'd be asked: is there a specific reason for doing this, and does it bother you in life? And you would most likely answer that - no, you can live with that, it does not make the text unreadable, and the names listed are uniquely identified. Also, it would be appropriate to mention that no one else among the developers of other applications is bothered by such formatting, and therefore it is the norm, no matter how incomprehensible from the point of view of logic it may be. Especially when such behavior does not bother one absolute authority, who, as they say, "is a big giraffe, and he knows better." =)
Upd. (Regarding blind following of leaders) Adobe's magnificent epic fail with Bluesky — linkedin.com/posts/chetfaliszek_today-adobe-tried-to-join-bluesky-tried-activity-7315563567674507264-zevg
Upd 2. I found that if I list authors in the "Document Properties" dialog box in the format
"Lermontov, Mikhail Yuryevich"; "Pushkin, Alexander Sergeyevich"; "Tyutchev, Fyodor Ivanovich"
no additional quotes are added at the beginning and end of the line, and the authors in the PDF file properties list are displayed naturally, without quotes, when viewed in Windows File Explorer
Lermontov, Mikhail Yuryevich; Pushkin, Alexander Sergeyevich; Tyutchev, Fyodor Ivanovich
This does not answer the question of why the quote characters are displayed in the PDF-XChange Editor interface, but we will leave it to the conscience of the Dev Team Leader and the developers of all the applications who, looking at each other, decided to follow this rule (enclose the list in quotes). I understand why this is done when exporting tabular data to csv/tsv (the values of all cells or only those that contain separator characters). Here I admit that I am too stupid to understand this, probably, essentially very simple thing. So obvious that they forgot to include it in the format certification.