Author Topic: Apply IPTC stationary change  (Read 6577 times)

Offline widphoto

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Apply IPTC stationary change
« on: March 31, 2007, 05:15:31 PM »
Apply IPTC stationary should give an option to append or overwrite data. As it stands now, any existing metadata is completly overwritten by this command including keywords. Also there is no undo available in case this option is accidently selected. Russ

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Re: Apply IPTC stationary change
« Reply #1 on: March 31, 2007, 05:25:03 PM »
Russ,

Apply IPTC stationary should give an option to append or overwrite data. As it stands now, any existing metadata is completly overwritten by this command including keywords. Also there is no undo available in case this option is accidently selected.

Several of the fields support appending (Keywords included).  Just set the '+' checkbox next to those fields.

As for Undo, I don't know how we would accomplish that since the files themselves are being modified.  We would have to keep data around that would let us reapply the old values to your files.  Certainly possible if we were just updating a database, but when modifying the files directly there are all sorts of complications that I could list for you if you're interested in the minutia.

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Re: Apply IPTC stationary change
« Reply #2 on: March 31, 2007, 05:40:00 PM »
No more minutia thank you very much, have plenty on this end. Found the check box, thanks. RW