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Incuding meta data in acrobat files

imagemaker
Registered: Dec 28 2007
Posts: 6

I have a group of files I want to bring together into one pdf file. These files all have extensive keyword and other metadata. How do I have acrobat include this metadata with each file? I will need to search by this metadata.

tedpadova
ExpertTeam
Registered: Dec 31 2005
Posts: 848
You can assemble files in a PDF Package and embed an index in the package and search that index. PDF Package files retain metadata from all the added files. As far as I know, if you combine files into a single PDF document, the metadata is taken from the first file in the combined document and metadata from the added files are lost.

ted

The author of numerous books on Acrobat, Photoshop, Illustrator and the Adobe Creative Suite, and an international speaker on Adobe Acrobat, Ted Padova is a well-known PDF guru.