ImageMetaData (set/edit EXIF/IPTC/XMP-metadata and Comment of image files by Exiv2 lib) content plugin

[fenix_productions]

2tbeu
Sources link points to old version.

[tbeu]

Sources link points to old version.

Yes, I was too lazy for too few changes. Try again in a few minutes.

[Peter]

I tried to define the new tag "CountryCode" with

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098=8|CountryCode|Iptc.Application2.CountryCode

in jpg-comment.ini.

First time TC crashed, now it seem to work.
Is the new definition OK?

BTW:
For testing I removed all entries for EXIF and XMP in INI-File and removed also "jpg-comment" from second token.


Peter

[tbeu]

First time TC crashed

What did you do? Can you reproduce and tell me all the steps and necessary information! OK, have just seen it.

Is the new definition OK?

Yes, token looks alright.

[Peter]

Completion:
How to handle the translations?
For "LocationName" I get "LocationName", for "Sublocation" I get "Stadtbereich" ..

Peter

[tbeu]

How to handle the translations?

You need to put a jpg-comment.lng next to your jpg-comment.ini.

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[deu]
CountryCode=Landeskürzel
LocationName=Ortsname
Sublocation=Stadtbereich

[Peter]

You need to put a jpg-comment.lng next to your jpg-comment.ini.

Thanks, I see.

To reproduce the former crash is not easy. Maybe it was an incident with other problems ...

Peter

[Peter]

Here are strings which appear in English although there is a German language file (Some strings are defined with blanks in existing LNG ...)

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DateCreated=
TimeCreated=
Writer=
SpecialInstructions=
SuppCategory=
BylineTitle=
EditStatus=
FixtureId=
ObjectName=
LocationName=
ProvinceState=
CountryName=
TransmissionReference=
RecordVersion=
ImageType=
CountryCode=

But when I translate e.g. "DateCreated" I have problem to use this entry.

Peter

[tbeu]

2Peter
Can you please send me your jpg-comment.lng and jpg-comment.ini.

[Peter]

Sent info.

Peter

[tbeu]

I think I found the error. You must not have duplicates of translated entries in the language file, i.e. this is wrong

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Creation Date = Erstellungsdatum
DateCreated = Erstellungsdatum

. Translation map must be injective.

[Peter]

Hello Thomas

I tried to use this definition:

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[attrplugin]
problem=jpg-comment.DateCreated := "" | jpg-comment.LocationName := "-- a ä o ö u ü A Ä O Ö U Ü --" | jpg-comment.SubLocation := "-- a ä o ö u ü A Ä O Ö U Ü --" | jpg-comment.Caption := "-- a ä o ö u ü A Ä O Ö U Ü --" | jpg-comment.Contact := "-- a ä o ö u ü A Ä O Ö U Ü --" | jpg-comment.Copyright := "-- a ä o ö u ü A Ä O Ö U Ü --" | jpg-comment.CountryName := "-- a ä o ö u ü A Ä O Ö U Ü --" | jpg-comment.CountryCode := "" | jpg-comment.Source := "-- a ä o ö u ü A Ä O Ö U Ü --" | jpg-comment.TransmissionReference := "-- a ä o ö u ü A Ä O Ö U Ü --" | jpg-comment.Headline := "-- a ä o ö u ü A Ä O Ö U Ü --" | jpg-comment.Subject := "-- a ä o ö u ü A Ä O Ö U Ü --"

It works fine to set and to display it in TC, but analysing it with Exiftool and with XnView shows problems:
- XnView is OK, but not "Caption" and "Copyroight"
- Exiftool(-k) has problems with all entries, but with the two mentioned entreis it has other problems.
- ExiftoolGUI is the same as XnView.

Please take a look behind it.

Thanks

Peter

[tbeu]

Thanks for testing. By chance I found a bug in the plugin which could lead to the run-time exception you observed earlier during test.

- XnView is OK, but not "Caption" and "Copyright"

If you use ft_string option instead of ft_stringw option in jpg-comment.ini for "Caption" and "Copyright" XnView displays them correctly, too.

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074=8|Caption|Iptc.Application2.Caption
076=8|Copyright|Iptc.Application2.Copyright

- Exiftool(-k) has problems with all entries, but with the two mentioned entries it has other problems.

If you run exiftool from command line with -L option (= Latin1 character set) the entries are corretly displayed. But not in command window which has problems with encodings.

[Peter]

Thanks for your quick reply and solution.

.... By chance I found a bug in the plugin which could lead to the run-time exception you observed earlier during test.....

Will there be an update of plugin or is it only a small issue?

...If you use ft_string option instead of ft_stringw option in jpg-comment.ini for "Caption" and "Copyright" XnView displays them correctly, too.....

Thanks. So it seem to be a basic setting of Exiv2 and not an issue of XnView?

...If you run exiftool from command line with -L option (= Latin1 character set) the entries are corretly displayed. But not in command window which has problems with encodings.

With "command window" you mean the "exiftool(-k).exe"?

Peter

[tbeu]

Will there be an update of plugin or is it only a small issue?

Yes and yes. It is not only this issue ...

So it seem to be a basic setting of Exiv2 and not an issue of XnView?

No, it is matter of XnView which does not correctly display UTF-8 encoded IPTC metadata.

With "command window" you mean the "exiftool(-k).exe"?

I checked with old exiftool.exe Vs. 8.0.6.0 on command line. Command window is window of Eingabeaufforderung.