How do I add metadata in Pages 5.2?

You can add Author in the Preferences, but this is only for e-pub export purposes. Otherwise, meta data is gone in all v5+ releases (including v5.2) of Pages.

Use TextEdit instead, the superior Application. 😉

Peter

Meta data is located in the inspector under document setup. Same is true for iBook Author.

I hope this is helpful..

Not in Pages 5.2.

Peter

Peter is correct. I can find no place in 5.2 for meta data. I was referring to Pages 4.

Meta data seems to be is yet another feature some one at Apple decided to eliminate in 5.2. This is very surprising; since Pages 5.2 exports to PDF and ePub.

In 5.2, there seems to be no way to get meta data into a document other than to export to PDF and tweak with Acrobat, or to export to iBook Author. Problem with iBook author is the limited feature set, which is focused on iBook publications. One other approach would be to an ePub file and use Caliber to add medta data.

Based on our experience, you might want to stay away from Adobe Digital Editions app. This is really nothing morer than another Adobe tar baby. Use Caliber instead.

no time flat wrote:

…nothing morer than another Adobe tar baby.

Love that! I've been searching for the words for years and there you are nailed it in one. 🙂

Peter

It appears that what support there is for this is located in the Export… dialog.

But only for ePub.

You can add the Author name, but no-more, in Preferences.

Peter

For pdf, a similar set of options are available in the Print to pdf dialog (but not the Export… one).

So the consensus Jeff is sorta, …useless. 🙂

Peter

I probably did not make myself clear.

1) When you export to PDF, open the PDF in Acorbat X. This is what we use. Acrobat X has robust set of meta data features under File/Properties.

Caveat: Meta data from within Pages 4 files that are exported to PDF format does not go into the PDF. Nice, eh.

None of this applies to Pages 5.2, which has essentially no meta data.

2) Meta data options are in the inspector in iBooks Author. iBook output files do contain meta data from Author. Meta data are used by Apple in its store, and, in our experience, meta data are essential for distributing iBooks that are to be read by iBooks app.

3) PDF files exported out of Adobe Illustrator CS 6 do include all meta data.

We use Papers to manage most of our PDF libraries. Papers uses meta data.

I hope this is helpful.

A quest for meta-data support in other applications, remains tangential to the OP interest in Pages v5.2. 😉

I have voiced my opinioin that Pages 5.2 is so flawed that is unacceptable as a commercial product. 5.2 contains so many problems that is it useless for our purposes. We have removed the app from our machines.

Another reason for not using Pages 5.2 is that we have found no way to turn off auto saving. Consequently, if a document from Pages 4 is opened in 5.2, it will immediately be autosaved as a 5.2 file. This means the file cannot be opened in Pages 4, and the backwards export function in 5.2 does not work.

Bottom line, Pages 5.2 is a hazard to use. Pages 5 also lacks a very large number of features that were removed when Pages 5.2 was developed. Many of these were highly valuable.

As of now, we recommend that users remove this app from their machines and drop back to Pages 4.

Furthermore, we recommend that the word about all of this be spread as far and wide and as quickly as possible. We don't care about Apple, where some people should be fired on account of 5.2 We do care about fellow users of Pages 4. That means spreading the word about defects and risks associated with usinig 5.2

Some on this forum have pointed to varioius resources that provide technical solutions for problems that have been discussed here. These pointers have been helpful.

However, as a veteran of the software business let me say this. Under no circumstances should it be necessary to have to consult technical forums and read obscure Apple documents to figure out work arounds in what is supposed to be a finished, commercial grade product like Page. This applies to inexperieced users AND professionals.

Pages 5.2 is a textbook example of several things NOT to do with a commercial product. The first is to remove features that make a subsequent release of a product LESS useful than the one before. The next is to re-engineer the UI in a way that makes a product harder, not easier to use. And the obvious one, NEVER release a product that has not been fully tested, as Apple has done with Pages 5.2

The question I have been thinking about is the business issue. Why on earth would Apple release a highly defective product into the user base. There is one explanation. Pages 5.2 is free. This leaves the door wide open to follow on with a Premium product that works, maybe even a modestly enhanced verion of Pages 4 ... and sell it for a high retail price. THAT makes perfect sense.

Yo Viking,

I beg to differ on the importance of meta data.

As I indicated, there are a number of apps that help us and other people manage libraries of PDF documents. These all rely on meta data.

Meta data also is one more way that authors with proprietary intellectual property, which can be any original work can establish copyright claims.

The OP was interested in available meta-data support in Pages v5.2. MultiX did not request if it was supported, and to what extent, in the applications you discussed. Nor did I state that meta-data was generally unimportant.