How to specify email and website in a standard way in LaTeX PDF

Question

I am using XeLaTeX and have found on this site to use the following (that works on XeLaTeX) for generating the very basic PDF metadata (title, subject, author, keywords, date):

\documentclass[10pt]{article}
\usepackage{hyperref}

\hypersetup{
  pdfinfo={
    Author={The Author},
    Creator={The Author},
    Title={The Title},
    Subject={The Subject},
    CreationDate={D:20040502195600},
    ModDate={D:20040502195600},
    Keywords={foo,bar},
    Producer={xelatex}
  }
}

\begin{document}
Hello
\end{document}

I read somewhere on the PDF specification which I can't seem to find right now, about the ability to specify custom metadata as long as it fits some standard/convention or something. So I'm wondering if there is a standard way to add the email and website to the metadata of the PDF (and any other potentially useful metadata one might like to add). In XeLaTeX.

Answer 1

You can just supply additional key-value pairs:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{hyperref}

\hypersetup{
  pdfinfo = {
    Author       = {The Author},
    Creator      = {The Author},
    Title        = {The Title},
    Subject      = {The Subject},
    CreationDate = {D:20040502195600},
    ModDate      = {D:20040502195600},
    Keywords     = {foo,bar},
    Producer     = {xelatex},
    Something    = {Something else},
    Another      = {Another key with a value}
  }
}

\begin{document}

Hello

\end{document}

However, visibility of these key-value pairs might be viewer-dependent; the above visual is within Adobe Reader under the Custom tab within the Document Properties (Ctrl-D). As mentioned in the dialog window:

You can add custom properties to this document. Each custom property requires a unique name, which must not be one of the standard property names Title, Author, Subject, Keywords, Creator, Producer, CreationDate, ModDate, and Tagged.

This is independent of the engine used.