Creating and Editing Metadata in Publisher

[daunier]

I did not realize that Publisher was storing and exporting meta data until I duplicated a previous document to use as a starting point for my new one, and my client noticed that the title field in the exported PDF file was the title of the original document, not the new one. I can edit the title meta data within Acrobat under preferences just fine, but was hoping there was a way to do that within Publisher, so I do not have to take the extra step of re-editing the PDF metadata every time I do a new export. Is it possible to create/edit metadata within Publisher?

[thomaso]

Hi daunier,
welcome to the Affinity forums!

In AfPub you can enter/edit some metadata in the Fields Panel > Document Information: Author, Tags, Comments, Title, Revision.

[h_d]

It looks as though the "Revision" field is only visible within Publisher (in MacOS 10.15, at least), and not in exported PDFs.

In exported PDFs, it's not displayed in the Finder Info panel, in Document Properties in Acrobat Reader, or by running the file through ExifTool. 

However, "Revision" is a valid EXIF tag, and I can successfully write a value for it to the pdf using ExifTool, although it's still not displayed in Finder or Acrobat Reader.

And the Publisher "Tags" become "Keywords" in the pdf's EXIF data.

Could this be a bit buggy?

[thomaso]

9 hours ago, h_d said:

It looks as though the "Revision" field is only visible within Publisher (...) And the Publisher "Tags" become "Keywords" in the pdf's EXIF data.

Could this be a bit buggy?

The EXIF data list is quite complex  and the human language (syntax) is not ambiguous in these terms. For instance a tag always is both a keyword and a label, - whereas "tag" is the label for keywords, like "subject" can mean "description" and/or "topic" or even "title", depending on the authors/readers understanding.

I do appreciate that the "revision" entry does not appear in the exported pdf but is treated like a internal info only. This way "revision" allows to write info in the document which I don't want to be read by the client, for instance which persons were working on my .afpub. Also "revision" appears not to be part of the EXIF document info: https://sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/TagNames/PDF.html#Info

So your "bit buggy" seems rather be related to the unambiguous terms of EXIF (or language in general) than to an issue in APub.

[h_d]

14 minutes ago, thomaso said:

Also "revision" appears not to be part of the EXIF document info

It's one of the XMP tags which can be embedded into PDFs and other document formats, linked from the page you quoted. If it wasn't a valid tag, then ExifTool wouldn't write it. APub seems to be treating it differently though, which is clearly useful for your purposes, but may not be for those trying to use the full extent of the EXIF data  

[feri]

In Affinity Publisher version 2, this is the path:

Window -> References -> Fields

This opens the Field Panel, and you can enter the Document Information.

[Rickray]

Thank You Feri. I could not find the fields panel for the life of me. :-)