Change array items in XMP metadata of EPS| Python

In order to change array items in XMP metadata of EPS file you will need to take several steps:

1. Initialize an input stream for the input EPS file.
2. Create an instance of PsDocument from the previously created input stream.
3. Get an instance of XmpMetadata from the PsDocument. If the EPS file doesn’t contain XMP metadata, a new one will be created and populated with values from PS metadata comments, then returned to you.
4. Now you can change items of array metadata fileds.
5. Initialize an output stream for the output EPS file.
6. Save EPS file with new XMP metadata.

Here is a code snippet that shows how to change array items in XMP metadata of an EPS file using Python:

# The path to the documents directory.
data_dir = Util.get_data_dir_working_with_xmp_metadata_in_eps()
# Initialize an EPS file input stream
ps_stream = open(data_dir + "add_simple_props_input.eps", "rb",)
# Create a PsDocument instance from stream
document = PsDocument(ps_stream)

try:
    # Get XMP metadata. If EPS file doesn't contain any XMP metadata we get a new one filled with values from PS metadata comments (%%Creator, %%CreateDate, %%Title etc)
    xmp = document.get_xmp_metadata()
    
    #Change the XMP metadata values
    
    # Change the title item at index 0
    xmp.set_array_item("dc:title", 0, XmpValue("NewTitle"))
    
    # Change the creator item at index 0
    xmp.set_array_item("dc:creator", 0, XmpValue("NewCreator"))
    
    # Save the EPS file with the changed XMP metadata
    
    # Create an ouput stream
    with open(data_dir + "change_array_items_output.eps", "wb") as out_ps_stream:
        # Save EPS file
        document.save(out_ps_stream)
    
finally:
    ps_stream.close()

See changing array items in XMP metadata in .NET, Java and C++.

You can download examples and data files from GitHub.