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| Public Beta of Adobe XMP Toolkit Version 4.0 is Announced Adobe Systems Incorporated has announced the public beta of Adobe XMP (Extensible Metadata Platform) Toolkit Version 4.0, a pre-release of the company's industry-standard file labeling technology. Based on open source technology, the new beta toolkit contains Adobe XMP libraries that provide third party software developers and industry partners with standards-based building blocks to develop optimized workflow products, taking the heavy lifting out of metadata integration in a new generation of design and publishing applications and systems. By utilizing Adobe XMP, desktop applications and back-end publishing systems gain a common method for capturing, sharing and leveraging valuable file information for more efficient job processing, workflow automation and data rights management processes. This beta of the Adobe XMP Toolkit provides the new ability to consistently add metadata to popular image, document and video file formats so that assets become more intelligent by carrying critical status and standards information. For example, these smart assets can deliver information, such as price and SKU data within a product photograph file and then deliver it into an automated page-layout system based on Adobe InDesign Server CS2. Here the product metadata can surface as a caption visible underneath the product image in the final print catalog layout. The new file handling capabilities of Adobe XMP Toolkit Version 4.0 add features that enable consistent metadata workflow across Adobe products and partner solutions. With this beta version, developers gain a centralized view of XMP data through Adobe Bridge, the navigational control center at the heart of key Adobe creative solutions such as Adobe Creative Suite 2 and Adobe Production Studio. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Computing News :: home page |