Comment vs. Description

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Comment vs. Description

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What is the difference between "Edit Comment" and "Describe" and which field is more portable to other platforms (such as Facebook, PhotoBucket, etc.)?
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Re: Comment vs. Description

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JimSpy wrote:What is the difference between "Edit Comment" and "Describe" and which field is more portable to other platforms (such as Facebook, PhotoBucket, etc.)?
'Edit Comment' is to edit the embedded jpeg comment.
'Describe' adds a descript.ion file in the folder with the description of files.

I.e. you can add a description to any filetype whereas comments are available in JPEG files, only. The JPEG comment is embedded in the JPEG file; when sending the JPEG file around the embedded JPEG comment is also sent.
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Re: Comment vs. Description

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xnview ([url=http://newsgroup.xnview.com/viewtopic.php?p=100361#p100361]Description vs. Comment vs. ???[/url]) wrote:Description is saved in an external file descript.ion
Comment is embedded in the file (PNG & JPEG)
IPTC is perhaps more universal
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