09-04-2023, 06:45 AM
Mike - some observations (low priority) on what is by now, I'm sure, your favorite topic: metadata.
I see that in the latest update the SourceType field now imports on the iPad; and that you've even added the ability to pick up the custom fields.
In order to lock in my ongoing workflows and templates I spent the better part of the afternoon working through a variety of metadata experiments. In the end I have settled on a set of field definitions, and input parameters, for ExifTool to make it all work for me with MobileSheets.
However, in working through this I did notice some items that might be anomalies, or might be: "works as designed." Absent my masters degree in metadata I'm not sure which.
But I offer my findings here in case you want to take a look and see what you think.
The 'A' and 'B' documents show some of these potential anomalies.
The 'C' document is where I have settled on what works for me.
The 'E' document concerns the use of true 'list' fields in metadata. On Phil Harvey's ExifTool site there is a whole thing about list fields being truly list fields and not strings with separators. I have noticed that if I define a custom field as a 'list' type in the XMP group, and then with that field definition I set a list of items into a PDF doc's metadata, then when I have ExifTool show me the metadata in the PDF file, it does actually show them as separate line items in a list as opposed to a string with separator characters. I don't know if that might be useful to deal with commas versus semicolons and all that jazz? Anyway, an observation I have made.
Also, in a post I did on Phil's site, he made the comment: "XMP is the future..." This was in reference to a question I had about the use of the PDF group vs the XMP group.
I see that in the latest update the SourceType field now imports on the iPad; and that you've even added the ability to pick up the custom fields.
In order to lock in my ongoing workflows and templates I spent the better part of the afternoon working through a variety of metadata experiments. In the end I have settled on a set of field definitions, and input parameters, for ExifTool to make it all work for me with MobileSheets.
However, in working through this I did notice some items that might be anomalies, or might be: "works as designed." Absent my masters degree in metadata I'm not sure which.
But I offer my findings here in case you want to take a look and see what you think.
The 'A' and 'B' documents show some of these potential anomalies.
The 'C' document is where I have settled on what works for me.
The 'E' document concerns the use of true 'list' fields in metadata. On Phil Harvey's ExifTool site there is a whole thing about list fields being truly list fields and not strings with separators. I have noticed that if I define a custom field as a 'list' type in the XMP group, and then with that field definition I set a list of items into a PDF doc's metadata, then when I have ExifTool show me the metadata in the PDF file, it does actually show them as separate line items in a list as opposed to a string with separator characters. I don't know if that might be useful to deal with commas versus semicolons and all that jazz? Anyway, an observation I have made.
Also, in a post I did on Phil's site, he made the comment: "XMP is the future..." This was in reference to a question I had about the use of the PDF group vs the XMP group.