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Title: Copy IPTC tags to EXIF tags on same file.
Post by: Archive on May 12, 2010, 08:54:39 AM

[Originally posted by munt on 2009-07-25 10:57:10-07]

Hi all.
Status = complete newbie.
OS Windows XP
Trying to copy iptc tag data to exif tag data on the same file. I seem to be missing something though?
I am guessing this is simple but I just can't see it.

Code:

C:\Temp>exiftool -all= test.jpg

Code:

C:\Temp>exiftool -Caption-Abstract="Hello World" test.jpg
Result...
[IPTC] Caption-Abstract : Hello World

Code:

C:\Temp>exiftool -XPSubject=Caption-Abstract test.jpg
Result...
[IFD0] XP Subject : Caption-Abstract
[IPTC] Caption-Abstract : Hello World

I want the data from the Caption-Abstract tag not a string literal.
Anyone?

Title: Re: Copy IPTC tags to EXIF tags on same file.
Post by: Archive on May 12, 2010, 08:54:39 AM

[Originally posted by exiftool on 2009-07-25 11:35:56-07]

Try this:

Code:

exiftool "-xpsubject<caption-abstract" test.jpg

Also see the
copying
examples in the application documentation for more examples of
copying tags.

- Phil

Title: Re: Copy IPTC tags to EXIF tags on same file.
Post by: Archive on May 12, 2010, 08:54:39 AM

[Originally posted by exiftool on 2009-07-25 11:40:40-07]

One more note. Since you are in Windows you must use double
quotes around arguments with special characters, not single
quotes as in the copying examples.

Title: Re: Copy IPTC tags to EXIF tags on same file.
Post by: Archive on May 12, 2010, 08:54:39 AM

[Originally posted by munt on 2009-07-25 11:45:16-07]

Ha. Brilliant.
Actually I am sure that was a doddle.
Thanks, that gets me moving and gives an further hint on syntax. It seems that the double quotes in windows are the trick.
P.S. Great Software.

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