Pound Hill Software, a leading developer of metadata software tools, today announced its expansion of the MetaGrove toolset for the Adobe Creative Suite with MetaGrove for Reader 8, MetaGrove for Adobe Creative Suite 3 for Windows, and MetaGrove Dynamic Database capability for Windows. The new software and its functionality will be available for general public in early April, 2008. MetaGrove is a software suite of products that provides custom XMP metadata capabilities to users of Adobe Creative Suite CS2 and CS3.

MetaGrove Dynamic Data includes the most significant database technology enhancements introduced to the metadata industry since its foundation. In developing the Dynamic Data feature, MetaGrove creators have recognized the importance of XMP metadata as a workflow medium. "As a result of the groundbreaking features in MetaGrove, we are seeing a great deal of customer interest," said Jury Balta, Product Marketing Manager at Pound Hill Software. "Our customers are telling us that MetaGrove has ushered in a new era of data server technology that helps them grow their businesses.”

The MetaGrove Suite for Adobe Creative Suite 3 provides standardized cross-platform and cross-application metadata consistency, server-based support for controlled vocabularies, and the ability to automatically enforce compliance with corporate and departmental standards. MetaGrove Suite toolset facilitates source file repurposing and extends the lifecycle of digital assets by encouraging wide-spread acceptance and implementation of metadata as part of the day-to-day workflow. The end result is greater productivity and efficiency. Applications within the MetaGrove Suite toolset are simply installed as a plug-ins in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, InCopy and Acrobat. Once installed, schemas are instantly available as menu items within above named applications. In addition, all of the expanded XMP capabilities offered by the standard MetaGrove plug-in are available to the user.”