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Use built-in PDF tagging feature to help organize files
Authored by: allanmarcus on Dec 21, '09 09:28:12AM

Check out YEP:

http://www.ironicsoftware.com/yep/index.html



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Use built-in PDF tagging feature to help organize files
Authored by: NaOH-Lye on Dec 21, '09 11:26:41AM

I tried Yep. Like many applications, and I mentioned this in the post, the tags are not stored within the files. In addition, this requires multiple license to run the application on different machines. The result is that a PDF tagged with a new keyword in Yep will not retain its tags if moved to a second machine. The second machine would have to have Yep, and it would need to have the same Yep metadata file stored in ~/Library/Application Support/Yep. Plus, the PDF would have to be added to Yep for it to show.

The method I described, and I failed to mention this, makes the tags cross-platform since they are a part of the PDF. I can send a file to a Windows user or another Mac user and the recipient will have the file already tagged.



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Use built-in PDF tagging feature to help organize files
Authored by: elmimmo on Dec 21, '09 05:22:34PM

Yep 2 uses OpenMeta (with its pluses and minuses). The metadata is stored on the file's resource fork. So it is a bit more flexible than you say, and it can survive *certain* computer-to-computer transitions.

I use built-in PDF/JPEG/TIFF keywords for things that describe the document in a non-personal way (i.e. would be useful to others as much as to me) to aid in searching for specific docs, but rely on Yep 2 for organizational purposes (so many of the Yep tags I use I would not want to be embedded in the file itself, just as you do not want the name of the folder the file is enclosed in to be embedded in the file itself).

Yep 2 can also read PDF built-in keywords, BTW.



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Use built-in PDF tagging feature to help organize files
Authored by: prodok on Dec 22, '09 03:40:42PM

Indeed, the PDF specification allow for a whole set of Metadata (using XMP, and the Dublin Core). This built-in metadata beats any externally stored "tags", IMHO. In order to access the XMP data, the PDF document only needs to be parsed (as opposed to be opened/interpreted), as the XMP is not compressed, according to the standards.



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