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Why does not the script work

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August 9, 2019
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My question, why is the following script not running within the "Additional Metadata"? Entries in the document properties, e.g. Title, author, etc. work with it.

The script:

function CopyrightStatusSetzen(){

var EingabemdCopyrightStatus = app.response({

cQuestion: "Geben Sie die CopyrightStatus ein:",

cCopyrightStatus: "CopyrightStatus eingeben",

cDefault: "1975"});

if(EingabemdCopyrightStatus == null){

}

else

this.info.CopyrightStatus = EingabemdCopyrightStatus;

this.layout = "MultiplePage";

// this.layout = "SinglePage";

}

app.addToolButton({

cName: "SetCopyrightStatus",

cLabel: "CopyrightStatus setzen",

cTooltext: "CopyrightStatus setzen",

cEnable: true,

cExec: "CopyrightStatusSetzen()"});

could someone help me?

System: Windows 7; Acrobat DC

Thank you and best regards

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What app is that? Looks like it may be a separate general XMP viewer. If so, it won't be looking at PDF/X metadata...

Bernd Alheit

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This is the viewer Adobe Acrobat.

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ulrichb43192846Author

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It should appear here:

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gkaiseril

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You should notice that the data is in the XML format and that is what needs to be edited. This property was added in Acrobat 7.0 and one needs to use the XMLData object and the XMLData.parse method.

This is not a beginner's project.

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ulrichb43192846Author

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Hello try67,

yes that's true, but I need the input in the document properties in the field as described: Description (additional metadata) and that does not seem to work ?!

Many thanks

try67

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I don't quite understand where you want it to appear...

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ulrichb43192846Author

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Hallo try67,

ja das stimmt, aber ich brauche wie gesagt die Eingaben in den Dokumenteigenschaften in dem Feld: Beschreibung (zusätzliche metadaten) und das scheint nicht zu funktionieren?!

Vielen Dank

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ulrichb43192846Author

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Hi try67,

yes that's right, but I need the entries in the Description tab (Additional metadata), and that does not seem to be that easy or impossible?

Love from

try67

Community Expert

Ah no, there you can only use the built-in properties, not ones that you've added yourself.

try67

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Actually, that's not quite true... If you go to Properties - Description - Additional Metadata - Advanced and expand the last item in the list, you'll see your custom properties:

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It means your code cannot work, and to update additional metadata requires a lot of study and development.

I recommend studying the PDF Specification, ISO 32000-1, to understand the different types of metadata. This may lead into study of XML in general and XFA metadata. Then you would need to update the XML metadata somehow.

So I do not say it is impossible. But you may not have the time or resources to do it.

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ulrichb43192846Author

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Oups.

Thanks, that's so extensive I did not know.

Many thanks

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Doc.info sets fields in the Info dictionary, as documented. Additional metadata is not stored there, or displayed. You can set extra fields in the Info dictionary but it won’t be merged into metadata. Standard names are automatically merged into the XML metadata, which you can read and write as a packet using Doc.metadata.