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Old 07-14-2007   #1 (permalink)
paulaugust2003@yahoo.com
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File title author info in Windows Explorer

Hi,

I recently moved from WinXP and Win Vista (business version). In
Vista, I found that Windows Explorer stops showing the title, author
and other information of a PDF file (which is usually stored in the
document property of a PDF file, and can be accessed by Ctrl-D after
the PDF file is opened in Acrobat or Adobe Reader). In WinXP, if
Adobe reader (>7.0) is installed, the same information will be shown
in Windows Explorer as if they were provided in Properties when right-
click the file name. In Vista, however, such information is not
provided any more for files except for image files. Does anybody know
how do make the explorer behaves like in XP to show title and author
information for PDF files?. This feature of showing title, author and
other information of a PDF file in Windows explorer is very important
for me to manage my PDF files. I hope it is still doable. Otherwise, I
will damn Vista!

Paul.


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Old 10-12-2007   #2 (permalink)
Judy in Ocala
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RE: File title author info in Windows Explorer

That's exactly the issue that brought me to this board. I have entered
comments in Properties that help me organize my PDF files. I can access and
display them on my XP machine, but not in Vista.

I see no one has replied to your question, so we're stuck!

"paulaugust2003@xxxxxx" wrote:
Quote:

> Hi,
>
> I recently moved from WinXP and Win Vista (business version). In
> Vista, I found that Windows Explorer stops showing the title, author
> and other information of a PDF file (which is usually stored in the
> document property of a PDF file, and can be accessed by Ctrl-D after
> the PDF file is opened in Acrobat or Adobe Reader). In WinXP, if
> Adobe reader (>7.0) is installed, the same information will be shown
> in Windows Explorer as if they were provided in Properties when right-
> click the file name. In Vista, however, such information is not
> provided any more for files except for image files. Does anybody know
> how do make the explorer behaves like in XP to show title and author
> information for PDF files?. This feature of showing title, author and
> other information of a PDF file in Windows explorer is very important
> for me to manage my PDF files. I hope it is still doable. Otherwise, I
> will damn Vista!
>
> Paul.
>
>
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Old 10-12-2007   #3 (permalink)
Dave
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Re: File title author info in Windows Explorer

Have you tried displaying the Title & Authors field/column in Windows
Explorer?



"Judy in Ocala" <Judy in Ocala@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:46F2CD2A-FA79-4D99-9F76-E3D6D3AA8A7D@xxxxxx
Quote:

> That's exactly the issue that brought me to this board. I have entered
> comments in Properties that help me organize my PDF files. I can access
> and
> display them on my XP machine, but not in Vista.
>
> I see no one has replied to your question, so we're stuck!
>
> "paulaugust2003@xxxxxx" wrote:
>
Quote:

>> Hi,
>>
>> I recently moved from WinXP and Win Vista (business version). In
>> Vista, I found that Windows Explorer stops showing the title, author
>> and other information of a PDF file (which is usually stored in the
>> document property of a PDF file, and can be accessed by Ctrl-D after
>> the PDF file is opened in Acrobat or Adobe Reader). In WinXP, if
>> Adobe reader (>7.0) is installed, the same information will be shown
>> in Windows Explorer as if they were provided in Properties when right-
>> click the file name. In Vista, however, such information is not
>> provided any more for files except for image files. Does anybody know
>> how do make the explorer behaves like in XP to show title and author
>> information for PDF files?. This feature of showing title, author and
>> other information of a PDF file in Windows explorer is very important
>> for me to manage my PDF files. I hope it is still doable. Otherwise, I
>> will damn Vista!
>>
>> Paul.
>>
>>
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Old 10-12-2007   #4 (permalink)
Judy in Ocala
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Re: File title author info in Windows Explorer

I just tried that at your suggestion. Nothing is displayed in either of those
fields for PDF files. Also, they are not editable fields in the Properties
tab. The information I'm looking for is in the "Comment" field. I would copy
my files back to the XP machine if the data could be moved from the Comment
field to some other field that would work for my purposes in Vista. But with
1000+ PDF files, I wouldn't really want to.

Thanks for the suggestion.

Judy in Ocala

"Dave" wrote:
Quote:

> Have you tried displaying the Title & Authors field/column in Windows
> Explorer?
>
>
>
> "Judy in Ocala" <Judy in Ocala@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:46F2CD2A-FA79-4D99-9F76-E3D6D3AA8A7D@xxxxxx
Quote:

> > That's exactly the issue that brought me to this board. I have entered
> > comments in Properties that help me organize my PDF files. I can access
> > and
> > display them on my XP machine, but not in Vista.
> >
> > I see no one has replied to your question, so we're stuck!
> >
> > "paulaugust2003@xxxxxx" wrote:
> >
Quote:

> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I recently moved from WinXP and Win Vista (business version). In
> >> Vista, I found that Windows Explorer stops showing the title, author
> >> and other information of a PDF file (which is usually stored in the
> >> document property of a PDF file, and can be accessed by Ctrl-D after
> >> the PDF file is opened in Acrobat or Adobe Reader). In WinXP, if
> >> Adobe reader (>7.0) is installed, the same information will be shown
> >> in Windows Explorer as if they were provided in Properties when right-
> >> click the file name. In Vista, however, such information is not
> >> provided any more for files except for image files. Does anybody know
> >> how do make the explorer behaves like in XP to show title and author
> >> information for PDF files?. This feature of showing title, author and
> >> other information of a PDF file in Windows explorer is very important
> >> for me to manage my PDF files. I hope it is still doable. Otherwise, I
> >> will damn Vista!
> >>
> >> Paul.
> >>
> >>
>
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Old 10-12-2007   #5 (permalink)
Dave
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Re: File title author info in Windows Explorer

There's also a "Comments" column you can display. I don't have any way to
add a comment to a PDF file to test it.

But I did display this column in my .doc folder, and it will let me add a
comment to Word files....



"Judy in Ocala" <JudyinOcala@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:F2324D6C-7CAA-4116-800C-61A160F55B8A@xxxxxx
Quote:

> I just tried that at your suggestion. Nothing is displayed in either of
> those
> fields for PDF files. Also, they are not editable fields in the Properties
> tab. The information I'm looking for is in the "Comment" field. I would
> copy
> my files back to the XP machine if the data could be moved from the
> Comment
> field to some other field that would work for my purposes in Vista. But
> with
> 1000+ PDF files, I wouldn't really want to.
>
> Thanks for the suggestion.
>
> Judy in Ocala
>
> "Dave" wrote:
>
Quote:

>> Have you tried displaying the Title & Authors field/column in Windows
>> Explorer?
>>
>>
>>
>> "Judy in Ocala" <Judy in Ocala@xxxxxx> wrote in
>> message
>> news:46F2CD2A-FA79-4D99-9F76-E3D6D3AA8A7D@xxxxxx
Quote:

>> > That's exactly the issue that brought me to this board. I have entered
>> > comments in Properties that help me organize my PDF files. I can access
>> > and
>> > display them on my XP machine, but not in Vista.
>> >
>> > I see no one has replied to your question, so we're stuck!
>> >
>> > "paulaugust2003@xxxxxx" wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> I recently moved from WinXP and Win Vista (business version). In
>> >> Vista, I found that Windows Explorer stops showing the title, author
>> >> and other information of a PDF file (which is usually stored in the
>> >> document property of a PDF file, and can be accessed by Ctrl-D after
>> >> the PDF file is opened in Acrobat or Adobe Reader). In WinXP, if
>> >> Adobe reader (>7.0) is installed, the same information will be shown
>> >> in Windows Explorer as if they were provided in Properties when right-
>> >> click the file name. In Vista, however, such information is not
>> >> provided any more for files except for image files. Does anybody know
>> >> how do make the explorer behaves like in XP to show title and author
>> >> information for PDF files?. This feature of showing title, author and
>> >> other information of a PDF file in Windows explorer is very important
>> >> for me to manage my PDF files. I hope it is still doable. Otherwise, I
>> >> will damn Vista!
>> >>
>> >> Paul.
>> >>
>> >>
>>
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Old 10-12-2007   #6 (permalink)
Judy in Ocala
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Re: File title author info in Windows Explorer

I do have the comments column displayed. That's how I know the comments
aren't displaying. I can add comments to Word documents, jpeg files, lots of
file types, but not PDF.

"Dave" wrote:
Quote:

> There's also a "Comments" column you can display. I don't have any way to
> add a comment to a PDF file to test it.
>
> But I did display this column in my .doc folder, and it will let me add a
> comment to Word files....
>
>
>
> "Judy in Ocala" <JudyinOcala@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:F2324D6C-7CAA-4116-800C-61A160F55B8A@xxxxxx
Quote:

> > I just tried that at your suggestion. Nothing is displayed in either of
> > those
> > fields for PDF files. Also, they are not editable fields in the Properties
> > tab. The information I'm looking for is in the "Comment" field. I would
> > copy
> > my files back to the XP machine if the data could be moved from the
> > Comment
> > field to some other field that would work for my purposes in Vista. But
> > with
> > 1000+ PDF files, I wouldn't really want to.
> >
> > Thanks for the suggestion.
> >
> > Judy in Ocala
> >
> > "Dave" wrote:
> >
Quote:

> >> Have you tried displaying the Title & Authors field/column in Windows
> >> Explorer?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> "Judy in Ocala" <Judy in Ocala@xxxxxx> wrote in
> >> message
> >> news:46F2CD2A-FA79-4D99-9F76-E3D6D3AA8A7D@xxxxxx
> >> > That's exactly the issue that brought me to this board. I have entered
> >> > comments in Properties that help me organize my PDF files. I can access
> >> > and
> >> > display them on my XP machine, but not in Vista.
> >> >
> >> > I see no one has replied to your question, so we're stuck!
> >> >
> >> > "paulaugust2003@xxxxxx" wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> Hi,
> >> >>
> >> >> I recently moved from WinXP and Win Vista (business version). In
> >> >> Vista, I found that Windows Explorer stops showing the title, author
> >> >> and other information of a PDF file (which is usually stored in the
> >> >> document property of a PDF file, and can be accessed by Ctrl-D after
> >> >> the PDF file is opened in Acrobat or Adobe Reader). In WinXP, if
> >> >> Adobe reader (>7.0) is installed, the same information will be shown
> >> >> in Windows Explorer as if they were provided in Properties when right-
> >> >> click the file name. In Vista, however, such information is not
> >> >> provided any more for files except for image files. Does anybody know
> >> >> how do make the explorer behaves like in XP to show title and author
> >> >> information for PDF files?. This feature of showing title, author and
> >> >> other information of a PDF file in Windows explorer is very important
> >> >> for me to manage my PDF files. I hope it is still doable. Otherwise, I
> >> >> will damn Vista!
> >> >>
> >> >> Paul.
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >>
>
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