What’s your target app - PS or Bridge or non-adobe ? If it’s adobe then I would try finding some way to kluge it via automation / droplet.
A quick bingle seemed to imply that IPTC support in the png spec’s was limited which might explain why PS use’s it’s own category header in an attempt to do no harm but then proceeds to ignore any other headers since it doesn’t no how interpret it since it’s not in the spec. Other IPTC tools I’ve used in case they are helpful mainly mac based :- Image Ingester / Exif Changer www.basepath.com - exiftool based Meta Machine http://www.hindsightltd.com/metamachine/index.html Media Pro formerly iView / WIndows Media - www.phaseone.com - pretty solid and scriptable Photo Mechanic www.camerabits.com is the gold standard for anything to do with metadata “Good luck with all that” - Seinfeld circa 2005 --- Andrew Mumford [email protected] 1 (310) 619 0208 On Mar 31, 2014, at 6:31 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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