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Title: -f option in combination with -lang
Post by: herb on February 23, 2015, 10:12:23 AM

Hello Phil,

Exiftool has the wonderful feature of -f option.
But in combination with e.g. -lang de, I only get German tag-descriptions for existing tags.
For not existing tags I get: tagname -

Would it be possible to enhance Exiftool in order to get tag-description also for the not existing tags.

Thanks in advance and
Best regards
Herb

Title: Re: -f option in combination with -lang
Post by: Phil Harvey on February 23, 2015, 10:19:24 AM

Hi Herb,

I know this isn't what you want to hear, but the only way to get information about non-existent tags is via the -listx option.

Doing what you want isn't really possible. If you'll notice, ExifTool just fakes the description for non-existent tags with -f:

Code Select

> exiftool a.jpg -focalplanexresolution -f
Focalplanexresolution           : -
> exiftool a.jpg -focalplanexresolution=72
    1 image files updated
> exiftool a.jpg -focalplanexresolution -f
Focal Plane X Resolution        : 72

- Phil

Title: Re: -f option in combination with -lang
Post by: herb on February 24, 2015, 11:02:06 AM

Hello Phil,

thanks for the clarification.

Best regards
Herb

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