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Hi,
We're about to purchase the PDF/Doc plugin for Webinator, but I need to know if the plugin indexes all metadata in the PDF, including custom metadata and XMP metadata, or if it just indexes the usual suspects.

Cheers

The meta data fields available from PDF documents are:

Author CreationDate ModDate Creator Producer Title Subject Keywords X-Print X-Change X-Copy X-Addnotes X-Linear X-Encrypted X-Pages X-PDF-Version X-Tagged X-Filter-Version

Thanks for the reply.
So, just to confirm, Webinator doesn't index custom metadata at all. Has anyone worked out a way around this limitation?

If you provide a sample file and what you expect to get out of it someone could take a look into it.

I have one here...how do i attach it to a post?

You can't attach to a post. You can paste the link to it if it's on a public web server. Otherwise you'll have to open a tech support ticket so you can email it.

I've uploaded here:

http://download.yousendit.com/92E1BDCC29499A14

in the pdf, if you open in a text editor and search for mytest, you can see the xml node of the custom property...this seems to be in the same format as the ModifyDate etc nodes...although with a different namespace prefix.
What we're aiming to do is to have things like categories specified in the custom metadata, and filter searches based on that (after modifying the search script of course)..but of course to do that we need webinator to index that arbitrary metadata.
Perhaps a change to the dowalk script would be needed? The implementation isn't really a concern (apart from time), but we just need to know whether it is possible to do.

Great!
thanks for your help.