File title author info in Windows Explorer

[paulaugust2003]

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.

 

[Guest]

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!

 

[Dave]

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

 

[Guest]

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]

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....

 

[Guest]

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.