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Live captions and custom metadata

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    • February 20, 2012 at 6:57 pm #61665
      wasabi
      Member

      Hi,

      Does anyone know of a way to tweak indesign's caption setup dialog box so that it recognises custom metadata fields that have been assigned to images?

      We have a few thousand images that are being tagged and sorted using Canto Cumulus and we are hoping to use three custom fields – caption 1, caption 2 and caption 3 to describe the image for different uses. Unfortunately indesign doesn't recognise these fields.

      Any ideas would be appreciated!

    • April 16, 2012 at 2:56 am #62007
      Jean-Marc Lévy
      Participant

      Hi,

      Did you find a solution? I need to do exactly the same.

    • September 22, 2012 at 1:22 am #63202
      Anonymous
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      I need this too.

    • September 26, 2012 at 6:25 am #63252
      Colin Flashman
      Member

      InDesign's caption setup can only import specific metadata. Put simply, if the data is not in a field which InDesign recognises, it won't be able to import it.

      A solution may be to move the metadata from one field to another which InDesign can see, such as Description. This can be done one at a time through Bridge, but a more automatic solution would be a bridge script which would do this.

    • September 26, 2012 at 7:43 am #63253
      David Goodrich
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      InDesign keeps its metadata according to the XMP protocol, Extensible Metadata Platform, so yes, you can add custom categories to be stored inside the file for an image — assuming the file format allows this. (In fact, many of the XMP fields are drawn directly from IPTC, suggesting XMP was originally intended for images.) I have never tried ID's automated caption subsystem, so I don't know whether it can be modified to use custom fields.

      Adobe's SDK for XMP includes a pre-built custom panel you can modify to input data into your custom fields. I've only used it for IDCS4, where installing a custom panel requires care (i.e., it can be installed on multiple machines, but I wouldn't rely on end-users to do the job). With IDCS5, custom panels can be made as Flash plug-ins — simple to install but requiring more programming skill to make; tomaxxi.com offers one to simplify inputting data in stock XMP categories, as well as several how-to's on XMP.

      As collywolly suggests, Bridge may be better suited than ID for modifying metadata, and Adobe has a forum devoted to using scripts to automate processing in Bridge.

      Good luck,

      David

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