Re: Meta data help
Re: Meta data help
- Subject: Re: Meta data help
- From: Martin Orpen <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 20:39:30 +0100
On 1 Jul 2008, at 17:33, Oakley Masten wrote:
It does appear to be a problem with 10.4.
I tried it at home on my 10.5.4 and it worked fine with one small
exception.
It does not work on .eps files. .tif great/.jpg great/.psd great.
Only the requested info or null was returned as you said would happen.
Not sure what to do next. Even if we upgrade to Leopard we still
need .eps files to place in Quark. The final desired result is to
place the image in Quark along with its name and the keywords.
I tested the script in 10.4.11 and it works fine apart from annoyingly
returning a file path whether you want it or not :-(
Files that don't have keywords will not return "(null)" in 10.4
because there is no reference to the keyword metadata field if none
are present.
You are correct that the Mac cannot recognise keywords in EPSF which
I'd guess we'd call a "bug" and Apple would call a "feature request" ;-)
If I were you I'd look at the slower option of getting Photoshop to
open the files or maybe GraphicConverter if you are looking for
something lighter on your computing resources.
Quark and EPS brings back memories of old-school repro work for me as
that was the only format that would allow any kind of descent
throughput with XPress 4.1.
As much as I despise certain aspects of Adobe I'd never go back to
using XPress or EPSF.
Using Aperture and InDesign CS3 along with the great AppleScript
tutorials from Sal and Shane would make light work of the task that
you are looking to automate -- and be scalable to handle thousands of
images at a time.
Regards
--
Martin Orpen
Idea Digital Imaging Ltd
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