Print metadata on bottom of photo

[OzPhotoMan]

Hi all,

Is there a way to print some metadata on a photo? I have a photo that has the description written into metadata and I want to print that description onto the photo.

Also, what is the description field for in the print dialog box?

Regards,

Steve 

[PECourtejoie]

Stephen, is there a site that clearly explains which field is supposed to be the "good one", which is legacy?

There is a panel at work that was updated from the flash panels era, and I think it targets the old ones...

[Stephen Marsh]

@PECourtejoie 

Most modern software should be using the XMP based fields, however, it is like the wild west and different vendors do different things.

As part of the Metadata Working Group (MWG), Adobe write to both XMP and the legacy IPTC metadata. There are limitations with legacy metadata, such as the length of characters supported.

In the case of this topic thread, the "description" metadata is part of the XMP Dublin Core and is called "description". It is also written to the legacy "caption" metadata by Adobe apps.

It is easy for me to check for the existence of the "caption" metadata in scripting. It is hard for me to check for the existence of "description" metadata in a script.

If Adobe software has written the metadata, then checking for the legacy caption should be enough, it should also exist in description as well. This is a nice logical assumption, however, depending on what software has been used in the life of an image, there may or may not be metadata in both the caption and description. I would personally like the script to be robust, so I'd also like to check for XMP description metadata as well.

As for a website:

IPTC Photo Metadata Standard

IPTC Photo Metadata Standard 2019.1

[Conrad_C]

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@OzPhotoMan wrote:

Also, what is the description field for in the print dialog box?

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Looks like there is some confusion about it in this thread, because there are two Description fields in the Print dialog box. If you are asking about the Description field in the Printing Marks section, all of those options print outside the image area, usually for reference or workflow use like at a print shop.

Unfortunately, this option won’t help you because you want Description metadata printed inside the image area, and because this option does not pull from metadata.

[OzPhotoMan]

Thanks,

I was not aware there were tow description fields in the print dialog box. I was referring to the one in the colour management section.

Regards,

Steve 

[Conrad_C]

The one in the Color Management section should probably be called something like “context help” because that is what it provides. As you hover the pointer over different Color Management options, Description literally describes it. I guess Adobe thought it was needed because color management is so confusing to people. It works exactly the same way as the Description field at the bottom of the Edit > Color Settings dialog box of color management options.

But it too has nothing to do with IPTC Description metadata.

[anonymous63]

ScanSpeeder, Windows only.  It takes info from the caption or description field and adds it to bottom of picture.  It's an extra step, but works.