Keyword Metadata in EPS

Hi,
I have keyword metadata in an InDesign file and want this information to be maintained in an exported EPS. Is this possible?
Thanks.
Simon Kemp.

Thanks Bob.
That's what I suspected. Yeah, I know a PDF keeps this data but unfortunately this is not an option... at the moment.
Simon.

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First of all apologies for perhaps stupid questions that I'm asking as I'm a AppleScript novice
What I'm trying to do is to convert PDF documents to image files (.png or .jpeg), this I can easily accomplish using the Automators "Render PDF Pages as Images" action.
The difficulty comes from that I also want to rename the generated image files (or PDF's before converting them to images) using part of the data that is contained in each PDF's Keywords metadata and for this I think I need to do some AppleScript coding (need to get and parse the Keyword metadata string for each PDF and then use the parsed data to rename files). Any ideas, hints or tips how this should be done using AppleScript ? (any websites / blogs where this kind of processing has been done ?)
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do shell script "mdls" & space & quoted form of POSIX path of F
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Hello, I'm trying to clear the keywords metadata field using the following code but it doesn't work as expected. No errors just doesn't clear the Keywords field.
var xml = new XML(doc.metadata);
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C:/Pictures/China/Paul/P1000664.JPG,Paul
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As before, I use hierarchical keywords with the "/" character as the separator in the photo files metadata.
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Judy
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