Beamer and alternative hyperref (with pdftex driver) configurations

Question

I would like to use a range of 4 to 5 different version of beamer configuration to have a certain flexbility when gerating slides w.r.t. differnt purposes --- e.g. presentation mode, handout, for me, for the web, etc.

So far I had this:

% presentation mode
%\documentclass[hyperref={pdfpagemode=FullScreen},xcolor=dvipsnames]{beamer}

% handout mode
\documentclass[hyperref={pdfpagemode=UseThumbs, pdfpagelayout=SinglePage, bookmarks=true, },handout,xcolor=dvipsnames]{beamer}

% prepare mode
%\documentclass[notes, hyperref={pdfpagemode=FullScreen},xcolor=dvipsnames]{beamer}

% dev mode
%\documentclass[notes, xcolor=dvipsnames]{beamer}

I enable/disable the one I want when generating a set of slides based on the purpose.

Now, I also want to control my author name, the presentation title and the tags etc for all of those modes --- but, at a single point in the .tex document. I found this information about how to configure the hyperref package (with pdflatex as a driver).

% configure hyperref
\usepackage[pdftex,
    pdfauthor={Bill Miller},
    pdftitle={Some Important Title},
    pdfkeywords={tag1, tag2, tag3},
    colorlinks
]
{hyperref}

However, they seem not to work well together. I put the usepackage statement at the beginning of the .tex document. I would like to put general settings in the \usepackage{hyperref} statement and add additional configuration parameters in the specific modes (or overwrite them with other settings, e.g. pdfpagemode).

Is this the way to do it? Maybe I am thinking to complicated...

Is it also possible to generate all 4 PDFs in one compilation run with PDFLaTeX?

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EDIT

Based on the discussion below I made an update. This is the code I have currently:

% presentation mode
\documentclass[hyperref={pdfpagemode=FullScreen},xcolor=dvipsnames]{beamer}

\title{Hypersetup (with PDFLaTeX) and Beamer}

\begin{document}

\hypersetup{
    pdfauthor={Bill Meyer},
    pdftitle={The Meaning of Everything},
    pdfkeywords={world, meaning, everything},
    colorlinks
}

\begin{frame}
    \frametitle{Test}
    \framesubtitle{Test Subtitle}
    This is a test
\end{frame}

\end{document}

The Author name and the keywords do not appear in the PDF file, the title is taken from the title tag. Where can I find this information if not in the document properties of the pdf file? Am I doing this right?

Answer 1

• Move \hypersetup with pdfauthor and friends before \begin{document}.

• The title is overwritten by \title, but you can use \texorpdfstring there:

  \title{\texorpdfstring{Hypersetup (with PDFLaTeX) and Beamer}{%
    The Meaning of Everything}}
  

  Or option usepdftitle can be set to false, then beamer does not use the title of \title for the PDF title:

  \documentclass[..., usepdftitle=false]{beamer}