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Carriage returns in IPTC Caption field
cdavisjr:
Hello,
I seemed to have read somewhere that one should avoid using carriage returns in the IPTC Caption field of the Stationary Pad, but I don't recall the reason. Since there is no People field, the Caption field seems to be a viable field for entering people names. I have been entering a carriage return after every name for no reason other than keeping the list "orderly"... I had considered entering people names in the Keyword field, but am not comfortable with it becoming unwieldly with many names among other keywords. I'd like to hear how others are annotating people names.
I used to annotate them in the People field in iView and now being a newbie with Photo Mechanic, I'm not sure how to handle them in PM...
Thanks for any enlightment.
--Carl
Kirk Baker:
Carl,
--- Quote from: cdavisjr on December 19, 2006, 03:53:49 AM ---I seemed to have read somewhere that one should avoid using carriage returns in the IPTC Caption field of the Stationary Pad, but I don't recall the reason. Since there is no People field, the Caption field seems to be a viable field for entering people names. I have been entering a carriage return after every name for no reason other than keeping the list "orderly"... I had considered entering people names in the Keyword field, but am not comfortable with it becoming unwieldly with many names among other keywords. I'd like to hear how others are annotating people names.
I used to annotate them in the People field in iView and now being a newbie with Photo Mechanic, I'm not sure how to handle them in PM...
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I know of no reason not to use carriage returns in the Caption field. Others should feel free to chime in here though...
What IPTC field does iView's People field map to? Or is it a database-only field.
-Kirk
cdavisjr:
Kirk,
I guess the People field in iView is a database-only field because I didn't see it appear in Photo Mechanic.. Only see it in iView.. Looks like I'll need enter People names in one of the available fields in Photo Mechanic. Anyone have a preference?
Thanks,
--CArl
Shadow:
If there is to be a new field added for people, similar to the keywords field, would if be possible to have it automatically populated with any code-replacement string enetered into the caption field? So when \codereplacement\ is enetred in the caption and replaced by the relevent value, that value is automatrically added to the People field also?
Kirk Baker:
--- Quote from: Shadow on December 24, 2006, 07:49:18 AM ---If there is to be a new field added for people, similar to the keywords field, would if be possible to have it automatically populated with any code-replacement string enetered into the caption field? So when \codereplacement\ is enetred in the caption and replaced by the relevent value, that value is automatrically added to the People field also?
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As far as I know there is no "People" field in either IPTC or in the IPTC4XMP core specification. So unless someone can tell me what standard metadata has a People field, then I'm not sure that there's much I can do...
-Kirk
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