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Title: Line breaks replaced by dots
Post by: Archive on May 12, 2010, 08:54:21 AM
[Originally posted by mattw on 2008-06-18 08:37:18-07]

Hello,
I am using Exiftool from the command line. When reading XMP metadata line breaks are being replaced by dots. When I open the file in Photoshop the line breaks are displayed correctly. Has anyone seen such an issue before and is there a fix for this?

Thanks,
Matt
Title: Re: Line breaks replaced by dots
Post by: Archive on May 12, 2010, 08:54:21 AM
[Originally posted by exiftool on 2008-06-18 10:38:23-07]

Hi Matt,

Control characters are replaced by dots in the exiftool output by default
to avoid messing up the formatting.  The original binary content of any
tag can be extracted with the -b option.

   - Phil