I promise I have tried and tried but can’t discover any answer.
Having created individual PDFs out of some web links, I am trying to add info to various metadata fields both from within the Document/Properties of the Inspector on a per file basis as well as directly into the Database View column fields I have made visible for things like Author, Title, Organization, Copyright, Publisher, Custom Metadata Date, whatever.
Except for Author and Title and the Custom Metadata Date (which has too much not-real data in its timestamp but that’s another issue) I am unable to input anything into the following:
From within the Inspector/Document/Properties menu:
Comment, Organization or Copyright fields
From the Database pane added columns for Copyright or Publisher
Why not? Do I have to own full fledged Adobe Acrobat to open these individual PDFs and input data there? I own PDF Expert and PDF Pen Pro but they don’t even show most of these fields to begin with.
NOTE: All of these PDFs were created from within DevonThink 3 using the Convert function for URLs I’d captured and DO NOT have any kind of password or encryption on them getting in the way.
Do I have to own full fledged Adobe Acrobat to open these individual PDFs and input data there? I own PDF Expert and PDF Pen Pro but they don’t even show most of these fields to begin with.
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DEVONthink isn’t using or integrating with Acrobat (or PDF Expert for that matter).
Thank you for zeroing in on that part of the documentation but unfortunately I still am at a loss.
In that Help topic you provided it begins by saying the Document Inspector’s Document Properties are related to info associated with “RTF and PDF metadata” and then a list follows which includes several of the fields I am having problems with: “Copyright, Comments, Organization.”
If it’s not in some sort of external PDF editor and it’s not here in the Document Properties, WHERE is one expected to edit input into these fields of the Doc Properties?
Also, though it is not included in the Help section you sent, why do I have “Publisher” available if I customize the Info Pane but NO way to input anything in that either?
As far a I can tell from a quick test, owning AA would not allow you to input data into these fields, as they are not offered by AA (presumably then, they are not part of the PDF standard, or are not offered for every type of PDF; disclaimer: I have not looked into this in any further detail; various copyright fields are offered in the Additional Metadata in AA, but none of these translate to the field shown in the inspector in DT.).
