Hi, I'm trying to put carriage return in IPTC:Caption-abstract but I can't do it. I tried adding \n or chr(013)in my string, also tried "AddValue" option but i still get a square instead of carriage return! What am I doing wrong?

Looking it with PixVue or other image editors like ACDSEE or photoshop Field should looks like this: Line 1 : some text Line 2 : Some text etc.. I tried different ways like :

or

or

All don't works

Regarding this issue, on my Solaris system I try: exiftool -UserComment="aaa\nbbb\nccc" file.jpg and then try: exiftool -UserComment file.jpg User Comment : aaa\nbbb\nccc so I am also seeing the same problem where the "\n" is simply being treated as two characters rather than as a newline. If a newline was actually being output, I would expect to see something line: exiftool -UserComment file.jpg User Comment : aaa bbb ccc Regards, -- Jeffery Small

Phil,

How can one do this in "-@ argfile" format? If I want to use the following:

it only works from the command line. If I put:

in /tmp/argfile, and run:

it gives an error. The second line is unrecognized.

What about "-iptc:caption-abstract=<FILE"? Well, that doesn't support adding lines. I can't do "-iptc:caption-abstract+=<FILE". Whereas with "-@ argfile" I can do +=. I'm really wary of having to extract the data, then munge it myself, then reinsert it. And generating shell escapes is always nutty.

- Joel

Phil,

Ok, so "+<=" will work for list items? Excellent! You make a valid point about Caption-Abstract being a string, not a list. I was referencing another tool's ability to append to captions, but clearly they do Read-Modify-Write, as must I.

- Joel