Automatically add metadata InDesign PDFs exported

Dear InDesigners

I work for the studio, it has become important to show which person (author) has been working on a document as well as what is the latest version of this specific document.

Sometimes clients send us a PDF (with corrections or changes inside) from a previous version of a document.  We now keep only a only documents InDesign (latest version) and save all changes in there, so there's no way real noted the PDF and InDesign are different versions.

Issues related to the:

1 is it possible for a user so that InDesign can automatically fill the 'author' field when exporting a pdf file?

2. is it possible to have a single element in an exported pdf that clearly indicates, it connects to a specific version of an InDesign document?

Thanks in advance!

MORIS

P.S. I am looking for in XMP, but am completely new in the present, but there may be a solution in there?  Additional information: management now told us, for each change made to a document, an additional document should be saved (addition of _v01 and for the next change save with_v02 and so on) and the previous version kept it as it is. For the studio, this means a lot of extra effort (manual) and project files cluttered with many files with the file name sizes increase. I hope that I can avoid this...

Hey,.
I know this is a very old topic, but did not want to create another and found a solution to the issue.

This script adds the author's name (as he has logged into the system) and a path to the document which can be found on the server/HDD.

So you can play with it:

#targetengine document_copy

(function () {}

If (app.eventListeners.itemByName ('save') .isValid) app.eventListeners.itemByName ("save") .remove (); makes debugging easier and prevents several creations eventListener

var mySaveEventListener = app.eventListeners.add ("afterOpen", economy);

mySaveEventListener.name = "Save";

}) ();

function save() {}

var doc = app.activeDocument;

var md = doc.metadataPreferences;

MD. Author = $.getenv ("user"); MD. Author = "Przemek Rembelski";

md.documentTitle = GetFileNameOnly (doc.name);

MD. Description = app.activeDocument.filePath.fsName;

function GetFileNameOnly (myFileName) {}

var myString = "";

Ditto var = myFileName.lastIndexOf(".");

If (Ditto ==-1) {}

myString = myFileName;

}

else {}

myString = myFileName.substr (0, ditto).

}

return myString;

}

}

Simply place not like all the other scripts in the scripts folder, but in the case of startup script (Adobe InDesign-> Scripts-> startup scripts), you may need your admin pass for it.

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