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
Andrew,
Thanks for the help. After a lot of fruitless research trying to make PNG files
display metadata in Photoshop (target app by client request), I have moved to
TIFF.
With some more work today, I now have a Python afterRender function in Nuke
that adds the metadata fields to the
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,RichRich Bobo
Senior VFX Compositor
Email:
Exiftool - http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/ is bulletproof and
cross platform ...
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On Mar 31, 2014, at 12:47 PM, Richard Bobo richb...@mac.com wrote:
Hi all,
Has anyone had to write IPTC metadata in their PNG output
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,
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
