Adding Metadata to JPEG, EPS, PSD, TIFF

Hi all,
I would like to know how if is possible to a read and write metadata (basically Caption and Kewords fields) to a different kind of files (EPS with JPEG compression, TIFF, JPEG, PSD...) WITHOUT opening them in Photoshop.
I need to manage all from Scripting, usually AS or AppleScript Studio.
At the moment I do this opening them, writing them and resaving them but I would like to know if a more faster and professional way exists.
I know exiftool but I would like to use Adobe routine or products.
Stefano

Stefano, I would have thought that 'exiftool' was the best solution for you by far. Never done it but if I recall correctly the developer allows for this to be included in your AppleScript Studio app? The problems that you are going to encounter with the Bridge option are No Access to the Application directly from AppleScript, Bridge is ONLY scriptable via Adobe's ExtendScript/JavaScript. Adobe's other Applications allow AppleScript to perform JavaScript so the ONLY way to communicate with Bridge is via one of these and the BridgeTalk messaging system. Although Bridge will alter the metadata without actually opening the file you will end up launching 2 App's if they are NOT already running. If you don't already know JavaScript then the learning curve for what's involved in this process is considerably more than that of the 'exiftool' man pages. Plus I would expect the performance of calling the shell from your app would blow the Adobe route out of the water… BTMO

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I then selected a JPEG photograph in the Library module and chose Metadata/Save Metatdata to File. I wanted to save the metadata that I had added (keywords, IPTC, rating, etc), but not the develop settings.
I then imported the jpeg back into another catalog. The metadata I had added was there as expected, but so are the develop settings. This I did not expect or want.
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I have investigated this problem further and now have the answer. It is not that the option "Include Develop settings in metadata inside JPEG, TIFF, and PSD files" is ignored, but it appears that the LR catalog is not properly updated when this option is turned off.
Here are steps to test and illustrate the problem:
1. Create a new folder and place a copy of an original jpeg image (original from camera) in the new folder. Make sure you keep the original safe and only work on copies.
2. Create a new catalog in Lightroom 2.3.
3. Import the jpeg image from the new folder.
4. Add some metadata (keywords, ratings, title, caption, IPTC data, etc).
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7. Select "Save Metadata to File".
8. Delete the jpeg image from the Library module, then re-import it.
9. Copy the original image back to the new folder, replacing the updated jpeg (once again, the jpeg image now contains no metadata from Lightroom). At this stage, Lightroom fails to recognize that the metadata in the LR catalog doesn’t match the metadata content in the jpeg file. I would have though that it should.
10. Open "Catalogue Settings" from the Edit menu and uncheck (turn off) the option "Include Develop settings in metadata inside JPEG, TIFF, and PSD files".
11. Reset the Develop settings.
12. You now need to make a change to the metadata like increase or decrease the rating (otherwise LR won’t save any metadata to the jpeg file - LR is being too smart and thinks it’s already up to date, so does nothing when you do the next step).
12. Select "Save Metadata to File".
13. Delete the jpeg image from the Library module again, then re-import it again.
14. Look at the develop settings (that you specifically did not want saved within the jpeg file in step 10).
Although the Develop settings were Reset in step 11, you have ended up with the original Develop settings from step 5. It is true that LR has not saved the reset develop settings, but it also hasn’t removed the old develop settings that are still stored in the catalog. This must be considered a bug (oversight). Note that it has also saved an Import snapshot as well.
For the more technically minded (and the LR developers if you are listening), the field "xmp" in the table "Adobe_AdditionalMetadata" is not updated (old camera raw settings and snapshot settings are left behind) when the "Include Develop settings in metadata inside JPEG, TIFF, and PSD files" option is unchecked (disabled) and it seems that this is the data that is written to the jpeg file when you select "Save Metadata to File". Note that the state of "Automatically write changes into XMP" has not effect on this process - I tried it on and off.
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I am wondering what the option "Include develop settings metadata inside JPEG, TIFF, and PSD files" found in catalog settings/metadata does? what happens if you uncheck it?

Bob12312321 wrote:
also when this is unchecked will lightroom still save keyword changes to raw(nef) files? thank you!
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BRB.UK wrote:
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Hi Maxideon,
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Adding Metadata to PDF Form

Hi, I'm trying to add some metadata to a pdf. I have the follow script in the form initialize event:
if (form1.desc.nodes.namedItem("metadata") == null) then
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form1.desc.nodes.append(oNode)
endif
I receive the error message:
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Hi,
This is the code I use to place metadata into the pdf file. If you open
the resulting pdf file using Notepad, the metadata is visible as readable
text in the file. I'm not sure the same approach can be used to add
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How did you get this to work? I
I'm looking for a way to add/inject values (keywords) into the form's
meta-data by retrieving the info/values from user input.
To test the above solution, I added the following script to the initialize
event as referenced, but I'm not sure what is happening:
if (form1.desc.nodes.namedItem("metadata") == null)
var oNode=xfa.form.createNode("text", "metadata")
form1.desc.nodes.append(oNode)
1. Do I need a field on the page?
2. What part of the above script affects the meta-data?
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