gpicsync removes already existing By-Line in Iptc

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
Geotag a CR2 file

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
I expect that only the description is appended but no other IPTC fild is
touched. But existing IPTC data seem to get lost.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
1.09

Please provide any additional information below.
I uploaded some files in issue #9

Original issue reported on code.google.com by bernhard...@googlemail.com on 20 Jul 2007 at 1:57

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Hello Bernhard,

I've used the two pictures you've provided in issue 9 (before and after 
geocoding)
but I don't see any problem.

You can find below an exiftool report for both files (exiftool.exe file.cr2).

To check visually for the differences you could use PSPad editor (a freeware):
http://www.pspad.com/
Then use the "Tools"->"Text differences"

Concerning the thumbnails I've visually looked at them with IrfanView can't 
really
see myself a difference (see file attached). 
That said if it the case I probably can't make any change,I'm just using 
EXIFTool so
it would be better to look there.
http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/

Thanks

francois 

Original comment by francois...@gmail.com on 22 Jul 2007 at 8:02

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Attachments:

• EXIF-geocoded.txt
• EXIF-original.txt
• compare_thumbnails.jpg

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Hello Francois,

you were looking at the exif records. There everything is ok. My problem 
concerns the
IPTC records. I investigated a bit more. After gpicsync run the By-Line is not
visible in IMATCH anymore. But I can see it in the adobe tools (Bridge). If I 
develop
the CR2 using Adobe Camera Raw, the By-line returns in the JPG file. So the 
problem
might be with IMATCH. I will do further investigations and open a new issue if 
the
problem returns to gpicsync.

Concerning the thumbnails (preview image): this is very strange, If I compare 
the
files in IrfanView, there is a difference (see the attachment). Nevertheless, I
already wrote to phil.

Considering these two effects, it might be a bit risky to geotag the origianl 
CR2
files. But in the workflow it is rather elegant to tag the original files.

Bernhard

Original comment by bernhard...@googlemail.com on 23 Jul 2007 at 6:59

Attachments:

• preview-Images.jpg

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Hello Bernhard,

""" you were looking at the exif records. """

Caption-Abstract and Keywords are IPTC tags and they are visible as you can see 
on
the previous attached files.

Also if I do a "exiftool.exe -iptc:all " on your original file it returns 
nothing.

francois 

Original comment by francois...@gmail.com on 23 Jul 2007 at 8:35

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"""Concerning the thumbnails (preview image): this is very strange, If I 
compare the
files in IrfanView, there is a difference (see the attachment)."""

I don't think it can help but for information on my previous sreenshoot I was 
using
IrfanView  3.99 on WinXP SP2

""" Considering these two effects, it might be a bit risky to geotag the 
origianl CR2
files."""

Always leave the backup option which is there by default. I also make a backup
straight from the memory card of my camera.

Thanks

francois

Original comment by francois...@gmail.com on 23 Jul 2007 at 8:52

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one more question? if the backup directory already contains such an image, will 
this
be overridden?

I sometimes repeate the geotagging process after correcting either the GPX-File 
or
even the geonames entry.

In this case the second run would override the backups from the previous run.

Original comment by bernhard...@googlemail.com on 23 Jul 2007 at 10:16

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"""  one more question? if the backup directory already contains such an image, 
will
this be overridden?"""

No it won't override the original backup (I first check if it exist and it is 
the
case I keep it to avoid the problem you mention below). Even so I still advise 
to
make some backup directly from the camera.

francois

Original comment by francois...@gmail.com on 23 Jul 2007 at 8:20