And, then there’s this… http://forums.adobe.com/message/5289378
Although the discussion thread is from 2009, I had the same exact problem - Photoshop deleted the metadata that I had added to my PNG files via Exiftool. Apparently, PS will remove any existing XMP data in a PNG - when the file is modified in any way! (8^P Rich On Mar 31, 2014, at 9:31 PM, Richard Bobo <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks, Andrew. > After sending my email, I came across Exiftool and Exiv2. Both seemed to do > the trick, but the problem I am running into has to do with the way Photoshop > reads and writes IPTC data - which seems to be non-standard (what a > surprise). If I write the IPTC metadata in Photoshop, it’s invisible to the > readers in those programs. And, if I write the data with those programs, > Photoshop does not see it. > > Looking through the docs for Exiftool, I believe it might be because PS puts > the data in its own category header area. Unfortunately, I need the data to > be viewable in PS. So, I am now researching a bit more to see if there is a > standalone/commandline tool that will read and write Photoshop’s metadata… > > Thanks! > Rich > > > On Mar 31, 2014, at 3:58 PM, Andrew Mumford <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Exiftool - http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/ is bulletproof and >> cross platform ... >> --- >> Andrew Mumford >> >> [email protected] >> 1 (310) 619 0208 >> >> >> >> >> On Mar 31, 2014, at 12:47 PM, Richard Bobo <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> Has anyone had to write IPTC metadata in their PNG output images before? >>> And, if so, how did you do it? I need to output PNGs with some metadata >>> that can be viewed in Photoshop under the IPTC tab of the File Info >>> command... >>> >>> Thanks for any help, >>> Rich >>> >>> Rich Bobo >>> Senior VFX Compositor >>> Email: [email protected] >>> Mobile: 248.840.2665 >>> Web: http://richbobo.com >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Nuke-users mailing list >>> [email protected], http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/ >>> http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-users >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Nuke-users mailing list >> [email protected], http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/ >> http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-users > > _______________________________________________ > Nuke-users mailing list > [email protected], http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/ > http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-users
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