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MS Office document properties / FileSearch / pdf / dwg

MS Office document properties / FileSearch / pdf / dwg

MS Office document properties / FileSearch / pdf / dwg

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I extensively use MSOffice document properties for indexing projects documents (xls,doc,ppt)). ('custom'document properties are encoded with a home-developed screen in word/excel or ppt)

I would like to extend this procedure to .pdf and .dwg files.

Any suggestion on how to proceed?

RE: MS Office document properties / FileSearch / pdf / dwg

There are commercial indexers available for AutoCAD, but I don't know about .pdf"s. Do you produce the pdf's?

AFA ACAD -- if you want to do "homebrew," how about saving as DXF? Or adding a layer with your indexing info and leaving it "off?"

Or, ignoring AutoDesk's pathetic attempt to co-opt open source with "DesignXML," there are .dwg to .svg utilities.

Or you could write a little routine to output your indexing information in your own dialect of XML, which would be readable by a lot of things (e.g., Excel, VB, C#, browsers, NotePad, people.)

No substance, just some random neural firings to get a discussion going.

Ron

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