CS4 | Portfolio | Entering desciptions | no support for metadata?

[Turtle_Heart@adobeforums.com]

Best regards

I use Lightroom 2.x. I have done a lot of work entering descriptions, captions, titles and metadata like this in the library.

I want to make some ACROBAT PORTFOLIO documents. In portfolio you can add descriptions under the images, which is a nice feature. HOWEVER I would hope that you could use SELECTED metadata fields to bring this information from the image into portfolio. It is crazy to have to re-enter this information.

Is there a way, and why not if not, to see the enter comments fields in the portfolio creation/edit windows to USE the METADATA fields you entered in Lightroom?

I am curious why there is not more import and support for metadata between adobe products...in particular there should be numerous painless ways to bring lightroom collections into portfolio without having to do everything all over again.

Maybe there are scripts but I never use them. Anyone have any ideas on this? PORTFOILIO looks promising but is also rigid in ways, such as this problem.

OSX 10.5.4 | iMac 20 in alum Intel | 4 gb ram | Acrobat CS4, Lightroom 2

Turtle Heart (my real name)
Ojibway American Indian Artist

[Steve_Werner@adobeforums.com]

Not available as far as I know. Understand that this is version 1.0 of PDF Portfolios. Not everything becomes available in version 1.0.

[Unregistered]

I thought I was missing something when I thought I had to re-enter metadata from a PDF in order to display it in a portfolio, and that evidently keywords are also not brought into the portfolio. There is absolutely no justification for components of an integrated application not to talk to each other. But at least now I know I'm not nuts. Hard to believe Adobe's strategy guys evidently are.

I bought Acrobat Pro specifically to compile PDFs of my newspaper (a 50-year-old weekly on Long Island's East end) for archival and reference purposes. What I can actually do with it is still do-able but the duplicate entry business is, frankly, absurd.

David Draper