Accessing Adobe Illustrator CS3 File Info with Applescript

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#1

Hi all
I’m trying to access the Keywords field in the File Info:Description element of an Illustrator CS3 file but can’t seem to locate the correct track in the dictionary. Do I have to parse out the entire XMP dataset??

Thanks in advance
Mike

#2

You will probably need XML Tools from Late Night Software - a free XML parsing osax

http://www.latenightsw.com/freeware/XMLTools2/index.html

If you just want to read the file info, that might do the trick.

If you want to do fancier tricks with XMP metadata, you might need to shell out for Metagrove from Pound Hill software.
http://www.poundhillsoftware.net/products.htm

Hope this helps.