[Originally posted by loloeroket on 2008-12-09 18:38:34-08]Hello,
When I do the following command:
exiftool -IPTC:Caption-Abstract -s -s -s -b /Myfile
I am getting a *** Local Caption *** at the end of the text. So basically exiftool returns 2 fields in one. Is there a way to get those to 2 fields separate? In the global info of the photo they are separated. It looks like:
exiftool -IPTC:LocalCaption -s -s -s -b /Myfile
is not working.
Cheers,
Laurent
[Originally posted by exiftool on 2008-12-09 23:29:51-08]
Hi Laurent,
The most likely possibility is that the information was written
incorrectly in the original image, but I can't say with certainty
without seeing either a sample, or the output of "exiftool -v3".
If you want to send a sample, you can mail it to me at
philharvey66 at gmail.com.
- Phil
[Originally posted by exiftool on 2008-12-10 00:15:51-08]Thanks for the sample. This is the way that the Fotoware
software wrote the inromation. The Caption-Abstract data
contains the "*** Local Caption ***" string, followed by the
LocalCaption value. Here is the binary dump:
| | 0360: 47 72 65 61 74 20 26 20 53 6d 61 6c 6c 20 2a 2a [Great & Small **]
| | 0370: 2a 20 4c 6f 63 61 6c 20 43 61 70 74 69 6f 6e 20 [* Local Caption ]
| | 0380: 2a 2a 2a 20 52 69 67 68 74 73 20 6f 6e 6c 79 20 [*** Rights only ]
| | 0390: 66 6f 72 3a 20 49 74 61 6c 79 [for: Italy]
Note that this information is also duplicated in separate XMP tags,
so it is unclear whether Fotostation is displaying the separate XMP
tags, or splitting the IPTC caption-abstract into to values when it
is displayed. But the bottom line is that exiftool is displaying the
actual value stored in the file.
Note there are a number of non-standard IPTC tags stored in this
file that can be seen with the
-u option.
- Phil
[Originally posted by loloeroket on 2008-12-10 00:30:02-08]
Thank you Phil.
So basically FotoStation doesn't write the field in the proper field...It's good to know!
Laurent