IPTC in TIF

[Peter2]

I'm trying again some features of IPTC, here some remarks:

"Imagetype" (allowed only 2 bytes):
I set this tag with exiv/2 to "imagety", here my results:

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Exiftool:
Imagetype                          : imagety

XnView-Export:
????                          : imagety

Same behaviour with "Subject" (allowed 236 bytes):
I set this tag with exiv/2 to "subj", IPTC-export shows:

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Exiftool:
Subject Reference                          : subj

XnView-Export:
????                          : subj

Both tags are not displayed in IPTC-Dialogue.

Regards

Peter

[xnview]

Could you send me the file?

[Peter2]

Could you send me the file?

Done.

Peter

[xnview]

Ok, no supported tag can not be showed or edited... XnView support only the most used iptc tag

[Peter2]

Another problem: I filled some tags with Exiv2.exe with German Umlaute - I entered

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-- a ä o ö u ü A Ä O Ö U Ü --

XnView does not handle it always correct. Here is the result of the IPTC-export:
(Sorry - the forum does not except some special strings from the export-file. I have to replace them with XXX)

D:\IPTC_Test_Umlaute.tif

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????                          : -- a ä o ö u ü A Ä O Ö U Ü --
Location                      : -- a ä o ö u ü A Ä O Ö U Ü --
Date Created                  : 65530000
Sublocation                   : -- a ä o ö u ü A Ä O Ö U Ü --
Country                       : -- a ä o ö u ü A Ä O Ö U Ü --
Original Transmission Reference: -- a ä o ö u ü A Ä O Ö U Ü --
Headline                      : -- a ä o ö u ü A Ä O Ö U Ü --
Source                        : -- a ä o ö u ü A Ä O Ö U Ü --
CopyrightNotice               : -- a ä o ÃXXX u ü A Ä O Ö U Ãœ --
Contacts                      : -- a ä o ö u ü A Ä O Ö U Ü --
Caption                       : -- a ä o ö u ü A Ä O Ö U Ü --

I will sent you the TIF with e-mail.

BTW: Also Exiftool handles both entries in a different way then the other entreis ... ???

Peter

[xnview]

It seems that these 2 fields are not encoded correctly... (in utf8, other fields are in local charset)

[Peter2]

It seems that these 2 fields are not encoded correctly... (in utf8, other fields are in local charset)

Thank you Pierre. Yes, I found the problem in the definition of encoding - wrong entries had definitions "ft_stringw" instead of "ft_string".

Regards

Peter

[Peter2]

... I found the problem in the definition of encoding - wrong entries had definitions "ft_stringw" instead of "ft_string".....

Discussing this issue on the TC-forum it is said that the problem is caused by XnView, not by TC-plugin:
http://ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?t ... &start=116
Maybe you can take a look at this?

Peter

[xnview]

... I found the problem in the definition of encoding - wrong entries had definitions "ft_stringw" instead of "ft_string".....

Discussing this issue on the TC-forum it is said that the problem is caused by XnView, not by TC-plugin:
http://ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?t ... &start=116
Maybe you can take a look at this?

Strange, default encoding is Latin1, so fields must not use utf8. I've tested in photoshop and in zoner photo studio, and it's the same as XnView...

[xnview]

Please check XnViewMP 0.48

[Peter2]

Please check XnViewMP 0.48

I took a file and set many entries to

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-- a ä o ö u ü A Ä O Ö U Ü --

The result seem to be OK.

IPTC-Export from XNViewMP: Not possible
IPTC-Display in XNViewMP: OK
IPTC-Display in XNView 1.98.4: OK
IPTC-Export from Exiftool: OK (wrong codes, but all the same..)

IPTC-Export from in XNView 1.98.4:

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Object Name                   : -- a ä o ö u ü A Ä O Ö U Ü --
Edit Status                   : -- a ä o ö u ü A Ä O Ö U Ü --
JobId                         : -- a ä o ö u ü A Ä O Ö U Ü --
Special Instructions          : -- a ä o ö u ü A Ä O Ö U Ü --
Program                       : -- a ä o ö u ü A Ä O Ö U Ü --
Program version               : -- a ä o ö u ü A Ä O Ö U Ü --
Byline                        : -- a ä o ö u ü A Ä O Ö U Ü --
Byline Title                  : -- a ä o ö u ü A Ä O Ö U Ü --
City                          : -- a ä o ö u ü A Ä O Ö U Ü --
Sublocation                   : -- a ä o ö u ü A Ä O Ö U Ü --
State                         : -- a ä o ö u ü A Ä O Ö U Ü --
Country                       : -- a ä o ö u ü A Ä O Ö U Ü --
Original Transmission Reference: -- a ä o ö u ü A Ä O Ö U Ü --
Headline                      : -- a ä o ö u ü A Ä O Ö U Ü --
Credits                       : -- a ä o ö u ü A Ä O Ö U Ü --
Source                        : -- a ä o ö u ü A Ä O Ö U Ü --
CopyrightNotice               : -- a ä o ö u ü A Ä O Ö U Ü --
Caption                       : -- a ä o ö u ü A Ä O Ö U Ü --
Caption Writer                : -- a ä o ö u ü A Ä O Ö U Ü --

One small issue: The export in 1.98 has the colons ":" not exactly one under another ...

Thanks

Peter