unable to add comments to the comment field.

[Gordon]

Hi,

I looked here:
http://www.exiftool.org/faq.html
And this didn't work, no error message:  exiftool "-comment<=file.txt" image.jpg

This works:
exiftool(-copyright='©  ME.COM' -P -overwrite_original).exe "-XPcomment<=comment.txt" *.jpg

I've tried this and it works, however, if the sentence is long it'll the sentence does not line wrap, instead the sentence gets truncated with elipses like this: "this image is licensed to shirley..."  If i double click on the comments field in XP then and only then it would show the whole sentence. Is there anyway to make it so that xp will obey the line wrap?  Is there another coment field?

Thanks,
Gordon

[Phil Harvey]

Hi Gordon,

this didn't work, no error message:  exiftool "-comment<=file.txt" image.jpg

Try adding -v or -v2 to the command to see what is happing.  Without more information I can't tell you why this doesn't work.

This works:
exiftool(-copyright='©  ME.COM' -P -overwrite_original).exe "-XPcomment<=comment.txt" *.jpg

I've tried this and it works, however, if the sentence is long it'll the sentence does not line wrap, instead the sentence gets truncated with elipses like this: "this image is licensed to shirley..."  If i double click on the comments field in XP then and only then it would show the whole sentence. Is there anyway to make it so that xp will obey the line wrap?  Is there another coment field?

The sentence is truncated where?  When extracting using ExifTool?  I think this is unlikely, so maybe you are talking about viewing this with some Windows softare.  If so, I don't know if I can help.

- Phil