What's the status with XMP metadata in EPS files + Adobe Illustrator?

Started by ribtoks, May 25, 2019, 11:35:57 PM

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ribtoks

May 25, 2019, 11:35:57 PM
Hello

I know there were some problems in the past. I'm curious if there's any silver lining in this area? Or any alternative way to write XMP metadata to EPS without illustrator.

Phil Harvey

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May 26, 2019, 06:29:34 AM
No silver lining yet I'm afraid.  It could be that Adobe's own XMP library has this ability, so you might be successful if you find some tool that uses this.

- Phil
...where DIR is the name of a directory/folder containing the images.  On Mac/Linux, use single quotes (') instead of double quotes (") around arguments containing a dollar sign ($).

ribtoks

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May 29, 2019, 10:30:44 AM
Would you be so kind to describe (or provide me some references) with exact current behavior of Exiftool with regards to EPS files?

Does it work with EPS10+ and ignore EPS8-?

Phil Harvey

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May 29, 2019, 11:54:27 AM
ExifTool will refuse to write XMP to EPS files if it identifies them as Illustrator files.  It will write XMP to any other EPS file.  PostScript tags may be written to Illustrator files, but not XMP.

- Phil
...where DIR is the name of a directory/folder containing the images.  On Mac/Linux, use single quotes (') instead of double quotes (") around arguments containing a dollar sign ($).
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