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MetaGrove Developer
Price: $249.00

MetaGrove Plug-in for Photoshop
Price: $229.00
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 Latest News
November 20, 2009
IPTC Photo Metadata and PLUS dialogs and schemas corrected
IPTC Photo Metadata
PLUS v1.2.0
September 22, 2009
VRA Core 4.0 ported from XML to XMP via MetaGrove schema and dialogs
VRA Core 4.0 XMP
August 3, 2009
PRISM Digital Image Management Metadata (DIM2) Beta dialog updated.
PRISM DIM2
July 13, 2009
GWG Ad Ticket and Delivery Note MetaGrove dialog updated.
GWG Ad Ticket
June 16, 2009
PRISM Usage Rights v2.1 MetaGrove dialog released.
PRISM Usage Rights


MetaGrove provides intuitive, high-fidelity metadata capture via a menu item directly within Illustrator.

Update the metadata while the graphic file is already open in Illustrator, saving the "locate, open, and save" overheads incurred with a seperate metadata-only application. As the number and size of the graphic files grow, the time saved grows.

Standard XMP MetaGrove dialog examples:
  Esko-Graphics Scope Document Information
  Adobe Illustrator XMP Paged-Text

Enterprises can implement custom schema properties and MetaGrove dialogs with the companion MetaGrove Developer which take advantage of the full depth of XMP's capability to match the natural organization of their metadata.

Available for both Windows and Macintosh platforms.
  MetaGrove for Illustrator $199.00
  System requirements:
  Adobe Illustrator CS3, CS2
  Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger or 10.5 Leopard
  Windows XP or Vista


MetaGrove Benefits:

  • Simplifies and facilitates metadata capture and exchange for improved workflow, increased productivity, and lower costs.
  • Enables fast, easy creation of smart digital assets that retain context when passed across multiple file formats, software applications, devices, and databases.
  • Sets foundation for flexible search and retrieval of rich media across diverse file formats and databases.
  • Enables rapid repurposing of digital assets.

MetaGrove Features:

  • Custom metadata Schemas. Choose from industry standard schemas, create your own, or create a combination.
  • Controlled Vocabulary. Controlled vocabularies are typically contained inside the Dialog (.mcr) file. Optionally, a vocabulary can be an external, tab delimited file, either local or remote.
  • Help Tags and Tool Tips. Mouse-over accessible explanation fields increase the speed and accuracy of metadata capture.
  • Required Fields. Optional required fields ensure that all essential metadata is captured.
  • Auto-Complete. Fields with commonly used values are automatically filled with just a few keystrokes, increasing the consistency, speed and accuracy of metadata capture.
  • Dynamic Data Support. Optionally query a web server to complete fields based upon the contents other fields in the panel.
  • Default Values. A optional default value can be specified for each field in the dialog.
  • Data Validation. Default, and optional additional, validation is evaluated as the user completes a field entry. An alert message advises correction details. Invalid metadata is never saved.

Related Dialogs and Schemas

Adobe XMP Specification

- Dublin Core (dc:)

- XMP Basic Schema (xmp:)

- XMP Rights Management (xmpRights:)

- XMP Media Management (xmpMM:)

- XMP Basic Job Ticket (xmpBJ:)

- XMP Paged Text (xmpTPg:)

- Adobe PDF (pdf:)


Publishing Workflows

- IPTC Core (Iptc4xmpCore:) (International Press Telecommunications Council)

- PRISM (prism:) (Publishing Requirements for Industry Standard Metadata)

- PRISM Usage Rights (pur:)


Advertising Workflows

- Ghent PDF Workgroup Ad Ticket and Delivery Note

- AdsML Ad Ticket

- Medibel+ Ad Ticket


PDF/A Extension



MetaGrove for Adobe Illustrator Screenshots -- Adobe Illustrator XMP Paged-Text

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