I tried to understand what gentilecliente was pointing out.gentilecliente wrote:i sent a sample photo of mushrooms with big comment to Pierre and i hope he received it . if you want to generate a valid big comment just download faststone program fsviewer.exe is also freeware with key t appears a window and you can put very large descriptions then open the same file with xnview and will find errors to correct them. excuse language. Fed
To have a better understanding, and as suggested by him, I have put a very long ( about 400 lines of text containing about 30,000 chars as JPEG comment into Faststone Image Viewer by Faststone -> Edit -> JPEG Comment. ALL of the comment could be seen in the window. Also I am able to scroll down the text in the window with arrow keys and also with vertical scroll bar available. I closed the program.
As a next step, I reopened the same image with XnView. Also, I have copied the comment to IPTC Caption.
Now I clicked on XnView -> Edit -> Metadata -> Edit IPTC Data. I see my long Text in the Caption window with scrollable Text ant vertical scroll bar. Observation till this part is just as desired.
Now I run XnView -> Edit -> Metadata -> Set Comment. I get the window with Image and ALL the text I entered. BUT ......
BUT, the text window (as compared to Edit IPTC data window, has two differences.
1) As I scroll down, the pointer is going down, but the focus is NOT shifting. As such I am not able to see the scrolled down text. However, as I was trying to delete, I was able to see the text 'before' deletion.
2) when the inserted text is long, I expect to find the vertical scroll bar, but it is NOT there.
3) In the browser mode, In the Tool-tip against the picture, I get only a part of the comment, limited by the window size and without the vertical scrollbar.
4) Also, The various output formats (Contact sheet) do not show the entire comment (behave differently than expected) with such long text. May need to review.
Of course, I do not understand how frequently, we encounter such long comment, but having provided such a facility, it may have to be made to perfection.
I request gentilecliente to respond whether this is what he intended to say or something else.
Thanks for everybody's time.