What is the proper way to add line breaks to IPTC Captions?
I have made such Captions in BBEdit and pasted the text in the GC IPTC Caption field. I now noticed that Option-Return allows me to make a line break inside GC, too. Is there any difference in the result? (Using BBedit or some other text editor allows more text-wrangling options).
Is there a maximum character number limit in the IPTC Caption?
[Solved] IPTC Caption line breaks and max length
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Re: IPTC Caption line breaks and max length
Yes, just press option-return to get a normal return inside a text field.
The normal return key will execute the default button. That is the normal Apple behavior.
There is nearly no character limit since XMP. Only the old IPTC/ANPA standard did limit the fields. But that limits are now ignored by nearly all implementations.
Thorsten
The normal return key will execute the default button. That is the normal Apple behavior.
There is nearly no character limit since XMP. Only the old IPTC/ANPA standard did limit the fields. But that limits are now ignored by nearly all implementations.
Thorsten
Re: IPTC Caption line breaks and max length
Sites like Google Photos ignore IPTC Caption linebreaks so as a workaround I have added extra spaces to those spots in case I forget editing the Captions inside Google Photos accordingly.
Off topic: Google Photos was the best free photo publishing site I could find (Apple Photos and Dropbox did not suit my needs):
- No sign-in needed for anonymous users. Any user can download all images for offline viewing. Logged-in users can optionally comment the images. Some users can be granted admin rights to the album. An alert to subscribed users if new images were added to the shared album.
- Google Photos automatically nicely collects all images to a single page and the user can click an image to show them individually (a forced fit to window would be nice but a knowledgeable user can get it via ctrl/cmd+). Arrows/Esc as keyboard shortcuts.
- An option to show/hide IPTC Captions, EXIF dates and location maps while viewing the images.
What Google Photos lacks:
- Search within an album is not possible (can you believe there is a Google product you can't search?!). Search is only possible at the main level and then it is not possible to limit the search to Keywords only.
- Not possible to edit EXIF dates or locations.
- Not possible to show and edit Keywords.
- Edits to the Captions are possible but the edits go only to the database, not to the images. So if a user downloads the image, the Caption might be obsolete.
- Not possible to add non-image content describing the images (.doc, xls, .pdf). I have used Dropbox for this but it is clumsy (I have one image with a speech bubble pointing to the Caption pointing to the Dropbox address).
Off topic: Google Photos was the best free photo publishing site I could find (Apple Photos and Dropbox did not suit my needs):
- No sign-in needed for anonymous users. Any user can download all images for offline viewing. Logged-in users can optionally comment the images. Some users can be granted admin rights to the album. An alert to subscribed users if new images were added to the shared album.
- Google Photos automatically nicely collects all images to a single page and the user can click an image to show them individually (a forced fit to window would be nice but a knowledgeable user can get it via ctrl/cmd+). Arrows/Esc as keyboard shortcuts.
- An option to show/hide IPTC Captions, EXIF dates and location maps while viewing the images.
What Google Photos lacks:
- Search within an album is not possible (can you believe there is a Google product you can't search?!). Search is only possible at the main level and then it is not possible to limit the search to Keywords only.
- Not possible to edit EXIF dates or locations.
- Not possible to show and edit Keywords.
- Edits to the Captions are possible but the edits go only to the database, not to the images. So if a user downloads the image, the Caption might be obsolete.
- Not possible to add non-image content describing the images (.doc, xls, .pdf). I have used Dropbox for this but it is clumsy (I have one image with a speech bubble pointing to the Caption pointing to the Dropbox address).