Local Caption

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[Originally posted by loloeroket on 2008-12-09 18:38:34-08]

Hello,

When I do the following command:

Code:

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:

Code:

exiftool -IPTC:LocalCaption -s -s -s -b /Myfile

is not working.

Cheers,

Laurent

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[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

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[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:

Code:

 | |     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

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[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