First of all, I'm impressed with PM's ability to read and write IPTC data as well as it does. IPTC
should be an industry standard, but it seems to be a case of "everybody has their own opinion". PM does a better job, of any that I have tested (including Photoshop and Bridge), in handling everybody else's versions! It will really be nice when PM can handle IPTC core, also.
Now, some of my observations with a few problems in the IPTC Stationery Pad:
- When I create a blank field (i.e. "City") and check it, it should update the corresponding IPTC field in the file to an empty value. But it doesn't. Instead, it acts as if I hadn't checked the field.
- I can sort of get around this by putting a space character in a field that I want made empty. But even that tactic does not work in 5 fields: Country Code; Supp Cat 1; Supp Cat 2; Supp Cat 3; Writers.
- There is no way (that I can see) to set the Time and Date fields to the EXIF capture time/date or to an empty value.
Also, it would be nice to have shortcut keys as it is far quicker and less stressful than using a mouse, especially when typing text values.
Thanks for your help.
Dave
(hopefully about to become a customer/user)
