Additional Info: Where does this go and how do I get it in?

[ruedigers]

Hi all,

I have a collection of images about Masterpieces of old artists.  They have their information in an exported meta-file (from portfolio), and along with keywords, they have some more descriptive information.  I tried to import them as I learned to do with keywords:

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exiftool -sep "| " -comment="M1009| Malername: Rubens, Peter Paul| Geburtsdatum: 28.06.1577| Geburtsort: Siegen| Sterbedatum: 30.05.1640| Sterbeort: Antwerpen| Bildanzahl: 124" 4888.jpg


Well, the pipe stayed there as a seperator.  So I imported them a multi-line:

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exiftool -sep "| " -comment="M1009
Malername: Rubens, Peter Paul
Geburtsdatum: 28.06.1577
Geburtsort: Siegen
Sterbedatum: 30.05.1640
Sterbeort: Antwerpen
Bildanzahl: 124" 4888.jpg

I also tried to get them into ImageDescription, but still, the pipe remains there.

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exiftool.ori -sep "|" -ImageDescription="M1009|Malername: Rubens, Peter Paul|Geburtsdatum: 28.06.1577|Geburtsort: Siegen|Sterbedatum: 30.05.1640|Sterbeort: Antwerpen|Bildanzahl: 124" 4888.jpg

My problem is not the pipe-symbol, replacing that would be a piece of cake.  I would love to import this information in a multiline-text.  Also, since this is information about the painter and neither the painting, the photo nor the photographer, where does this information truly belong?   

Any help would be great! 

Cheers,
Rudy

[Phil Harvey]

Hi Rudy,

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exiftool -sep "| " -comment="M1009| Malername: Rubens, Peter Paul| Geburtsdatum: 28.06.1577| Geburtsort: Siegen| Sterbedatum: 30.05.1640| Sterbeort: Antwerpen| Bildanzahl: 124" 4888.jpg

Well, the pipe stayed there as a seperator.  So I imported them a multi-line:

Yes, because Comment is not a List-type tag.  The -sep option is only used to separate list items.

My problem is not the pipe-symbol, replacing that would be a piece of cake.  I would love to import this information in a multiline-text.  Also, since this is information about the painter and neither the painting, the photo nor the photographer, where does this information truly belong?   

I'm afraid I don't understand.  Why don't you use multi-line text then?

Maybe try looking at the XMP iptcCore and XMP iptcExt tags to see if it fits there.

- Phil