I have added some text to an image (photo).
Whilst using XnViewMP as a viewer and checking the properties, the comments are there alright - under 'Embedded Comments
In Opus I tried columns 'Comments', 'User Description' 'Description' but nothing is being displayed.
I am not sure if at all possible, but how to display the embedded comments ?
Please attach a sample file.
Attached file: DSC_1246-large.jpg
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XnView properties vs Opus Properties (see below)
Embedded comments is not 'carried over' to comments
That said, I just... discovered that I could click on the 'comment' field in Opus file-properties
and it would open a small window allowing to manually add text there.
Sorry for the big screenshots...
As an aside: That is not the Opus properties dialog. It is the Windows properties dialog. You'll see the same from Explorer or most other programs if you right-click a file and choose Properties.
(Opus has its own metadata editor: Editing Metadata.)
Windows (and Opus, for consistency with Explorer) use a different EXIF comment field to some programs. Some can show both fields. In XnView and IrfanView the Windows comment field shows up as "XPComment".
From the XnView forum: Disparity with the written 'Comment' field (metadata).
Thank you very much for checking this! Really appreciate it.
I just ran into this problem today, and after some spelunking discovered that the XnView MP metadata field labelled "Embedded comment" in their metadata viewer (and which shows up in their Image subsection) appears in an EXIFTOOL dump as field "Comment" in section "[File]".
I can't seem to find any way to display that metadata in Directory Opus. It would be nice if I could since anyone using XnView may have set it using the convenient Ctrl-D shortcut they provide -- just as DOpus provides Ctrl-P to set a Description.
It's really a shame that there are so many redundant metadata fields, but that's the trade off to support legacy formats. About all anyone can do is support them all in some fashion or another. DOpus is stellar in that regard, although this one seems to be missing.
Try enabling this option in XnviewMP:
Thanks for that tip. It doesn't entirely solve the problem, but it helps.
I started documenting the various comment-like fields that are accessible through DOpus, File Explorer and XnView hoping I'd find one consistent field I could use that would be easily set in each. No such luck. It was my intention to post a mapping table in my reply, but it got too complicated to be useful.
