Image-ExifTool - Re: Phil: Copying tags from Sidecar xmp files to raw files

Posted on Mon Nov 17 18:10:32 2008 by exiftool in response to 9351 (See the whole thread of 18)
Re: Phil: Copying tags from Sidecar xmp files to raw files
Yes.

Thanks for the sample ACDSee XMP file. The next release of exiftool will have the ability to write XMP-acdsee:rpp.

You may want to submit a bug report to ACDSee: They are incorrectly using a tag ID of "exif:FocalLengthIn35mmFormat" instead of "exif:FocalLengthIn35mmFilm" (but their track record is much better than Microsoft, who made two such naming errors in addition to four case errors in XMP tag ID's).

Aside: Software vendors should really ask me to validate a sample of their meta information (not only XMP, but EXIF as well) before they release it to the public. I will do this for free, and it will save a lot of hassle trying to maintain backward compatibility with incorrectly formatted meta information. I can spot some problems immediately that may otherwise remain for months or years before they are fixed, and by then it is too late.

- Phil
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