ExifTool Forum

[Originally posted by 00coday on 2006-02-23 16:32:25-08]

I am having a problem pulling the Caption-Abstract IPTC field out of an image.

I should be getting:

030328-N-5362A-010

Polish Special Operations Forces (GROM) during boarding operations in the port of Umm Qasr.  The GROM participated in coalition naval forces efforts to clear southern Iraqi waterways of mines and rogue vessels to make way for the arrival of humanitarian relief shipments March 28, 2003.  Operation Iraqi Freedom is the multi-national coalition effort to liberate the Iraqi people, eliminate Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and end the regime of Saddam Hussein.  (U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 1st Class Arlo K. Abrahamson)

(RELEASED)

But I am getting:

Polish Special Operations Forces (GROM) during boarding operations in the port of Umm Qasr.  The GROM participated in coalition naval forces efforts to clear southern Iraqi waterways of mines and rogue vessels to make way for the arrival of humanitarian relief shipments March 28, 2003.  Operation Iraqi Freedom is the multi-national coalition effort to liberate the Iraqi people, eliminate Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and end the regime of Saddam Hussein.  (U.S. Navy phot(RELEASED)grapher's Mate 1st Class Arlo K. Abrahamson)

Notice toward the end the (RELEASED) text has been shifted.  Could this be due to the cariage returns being stored in the data.

The subject image can be found at:

http://o-day.net/sample/10000002.JPG

Any Thoughts?

[Originally posted by exiftool on 2006-02-23 16:42:49-08]

Yes.  Your problem is linefeeds.  The caption in your sample uses 0x0d characters for the linefeed.  This is the Macintosh standard.  Your PC would of course prefer 0x0d followed by 0x0a.  And in the Unix world, it is 0x0a alone.

You will have to convert the linefeeds for the specific platform you are using.