I am trying to add long descriptions/notes with the metadata editor, but I am stumbling with 2 problems:
The editor doesn’t seem to like using the enter key to create new lines (maybe that key is bound to apply the changes or something like that)
I can’t seem to be able to write too long descriptions. If I try, the description (or notes) field gets reset to empty when I try to apply the metadata
Is there are any reason for the length limit or should I file a bug/request on Github?
Which version are you using?
It seems that recently (last 2 months, so after 3.0 release) there was a bit of work regarding metadata editing (by @phweyland and sams96 I think?) and it fixed quite a bit, but those aren’t yet in released version.
Regarding enter key - you can try using Shift+Enter.
and for long description: how long is long? can you paste example description?
Yes, this is still a limitation. In fact I haven’t found any standard metadata (exiv2) supporting multi line feeds. That means that if we add such a metadata item to dt, it could not be exported (or only the first line (*)).
(*) that may be the way to go.
What do you mean by too long ? I’ve tried with 10.000 characters it still works (enter or apply button)…
If you have more details please share them.
I am using the latest (up to yesterday) development version.
That means that if we add such a metadata item to dt, it could not be exported (or only the first line ()).
() that may be the way to go.
Maybe replacing the line breaks with another character (spaces, tabs, etc) could work.
What do you mean by too long ? I’ve tried with 10.000 characters it still works (enter or apply button)…
Definitely I wasn’t using that many characters. Is there any restriction on which symbols can be used? When I get home, I will share the exact description I was trying to add.
Some weeks ago I tried to paste a text of about 800 characters. First it was shown in the text field, but it disappeared the same way you described. My first assumption was : this text might be too long. But I figured out that the characters " as in “any word” caused this behaviour (not text length). Probably there are more characters which are not accepted.
It would be nice if the user would get a warning when text is added which can not be included.
This is probably a side question, but I don’t want to start a whole new thread on it:
I had read that you can pull XMP tag data from JPEG files but I can’t seem to find a way to do that. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Using DT 3.0 with Windows 10.
