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Multiple keywords in the IPTC field

strubin Member
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I am using the IPTC "keywords" field to list the names of people in my photos. I separate the names with a comma. Unfortunately, an image with the Keywords field "Jack,John" creates a single keyword with both names. I want separate keywords, "Jack" and "John".

How can I format the IPTC Keywords field to create multiple keywords?

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  • MarkRH Member
    edited 5:16AM

    I use Irfanview to enter IPTC information into my images and on the keywords tab, I put each keyword on its own line. So, I'm pressing Enter between each keyword.

    So try using a new line between each word. While I'm still on version 1.5.7 of the gallery software, I'm pretty sure the code that handles the IPTC tags probably still acts the same way.

    Hope that helps.

  • acrylian Administrator, Developer
    edited 5:27PM

    @MarkRH You really should upgrade, 1.5.7 is over five years old now already!

    While some internals changed regarding metadata the processing of this actually has not. If you use IPTC for keywords you have to use new lines. If you use EXIF commas should do.

    Zenphoto generally allows multiple word tags. Not sure how you handle those in image metadata.

  • strubin Member

    Thanks, that fixed it.

    I am writing my own software that creates the IPTC-Keywords metadata entry, and I didn't realize that each separate keyword needs it's own IPTC-Keywords entry. I thought I could pack all the names into a single metadata item, but that is wrong. When I ran Irfanview, I was able to look at the metadata it created and understand that it's possible (and necessary) to create multiple metadata items with the same key (the IPTC-Keywords entry).

    Zenphoto handles this perfectly.

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