Import Spotlight comments into Bridge CS3?

Has anyone figured out a way to do this yet?
Thx

Has anyone figured out a way to do this yet?
This sounds like a request after an earlier post but I don't know what you
exactly want or to what post you are referring to. As I rarely use Spotlight
I saw an option to place a comment but never used it in my workflow nor have
I heard anyone else about it.
Bridge uses metadata according to IPTC, if you need to copy text to those
fields you might try the scripting forum elsewhere on this site.
Maybe you can specify a bit more what you want to do and what your goal is.
Meanwhile you could already start to use a workflow with adding text to the
metadata fields in Bridge itself. You can select multiple files that need
same info and you only have to fill in once for those selected files to fill
them all in one go.
BTW, the current version is CS5 and needless to say you are a little behind
with upgrading, especially Bridge CS3 was not the best version. CS6 will be
your last chance to an upgrade after this you will have to get a complete
new version.

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