The standard in use here (IPTC) is the one that's defined in terms of [section] : [contents], how the actual data is placed into the file seems to be open for variation, I would imagine (I don't know for sure) that Adobe worked out how they would do it and then everyone else copied the structure, with Photoshop 7 they have shifted the goal posts a little.
Your understanding of the way IPTC works is way ahead of me, but yes, that's the problem. Adobe should either put the goalposts back where they were, or devise a workaround - can't see either happening until their technical services people acknowledge the problem, rather than suggest that other software suppliers should move their football pitches so that the goalposts re-appear in the right place. Or maybe someone in Adobe is working on this, without telling technical services.
By the way I know a workaround for this is to batch resave in version 6 of Photoshop the files created in version 7 but I don't want to do this as it will re jpeg the files and I want to use the lossless method of IPTC injection GM offers.
And I don't want to have to do everything twice!
Andrew Wiard
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