Image-ExifTool - melting of keywords of 2 images in new image...

Posted on Wed May 7 23:37:50 2008 by pixelpicker
melting of keywords of 2 images in new image...
Hello. First: MANY MANY thanks for Exiftool. Even with my little brain I could modify lots of images-metadata that wasn't possible with other programs. Specially the features to change the Exif-entries is so helpful! Now to the task: I have two images in two folders [named: deutsch, english], one with German, the other with English keywords. I want to create, copy a new image in a new folder [named: beide] and copy first the german and second the english kewords into the new image. result: one image with all keywords and the English, German keywordlists should be separated by a Pipe. My 5 step sollution is this up to now:

perl exiftool.pl -overwrite_original "-xmp:Keywords<Keywords" F:\Keyowrds_melting\english

perl exiftool.pl -tagsfromfile F:\Keyowrds_melting\english\%f.jpg -xmp:Keywords -o F:\Keyowrds_melt +ing\beide F:\Keyowrds_melting\deutsch\

perl exiftool.pl -overwrite_original -Keywords+=" | ." F:\Keyowrds_melting\beide

perl exiftool.pl -overwrite_original "-xmp:Keywords+>keywords" F:\Keyowrds_melting\beide

perl exiftool.pl -overwrite_original -xmp:Keywords= F:\Keyowrds_melting\beide

The Problem: if I look at the keywords in Adobe [Photoshop and Bridge] the additional second block of english keywords are not separated correctly, the are comma separated instead of semicolon like the German ones. It looks like this:

abnorm;

Abnormalitaet;

Abnormalitaeten;

aengstlich;

allein;

|;

abnorm, abnormal, abnormalities, abnormality, abnormally, abnormities, abnormity

Could be, that results because the xmp:Keywords tag is no list-tag or has another list-format. I tried it also with the XMP-dc:subject tag but it resulted in not visible english keywords in Adobe although all the keywords showed in Exiftool with
perl exiftool.pl -a -G1 -s

Does anyone have an idea, how I can create a correct keywordlist in the new image?
Many thanks!
Have sunny days.
greetings from
pixelpicker
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