PICT file meta data

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John Smith
Jun 8, 2006
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We have a number of QuickDraw pict files that contain keywords describing the picture. On a mac with photo shop you can see these keywords in the file info. On a PC with photo shop they are not visible.

Why is this?

Thanks Jon
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Andrew Morton
Jun 8, 2006
John Smith wrote:
We have a number of QuickDraw pict files that contain keywords describing the picture. On a mac with photo shop you can see these keywords in the file info. On a PC with photo shop they are not visible.
Why is this?

I have a strong suspicion that, for that file format, the metadata is stored in the file’s resource fork (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_fork), which means it is not transferred to/seen by the PC.

Andrew
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John Smith
Jun 8, 2006
Thanks for this, not sure about the transfer the files were send to us copied onto a pc and emailed to the mac.

Thanks

Jon
"Andrew Morton" wrote in message
John Smith wrote:
We have a number of QuickDraw pict files that contain keywords describing the picture. On a mac with photo shop you can see these keywords in the file info. On a PC with photo shop they are not visible.
Why is this?

I have a strong suspicion that, for that file format, the metadata is stored in the file’s resource fork
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_fork), which means it is not transferred to/seen by the PC.

Andrew

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