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2006.09.18 19:47 "Re: embed text", by Toby Thain
On 18-Sep-06, at 3:25 PM, Pallek, Bernie: #CIPO - OPIC wrote: > > There is an "ImageDescription" tag that sounds like it would be > useful; you could use tiffset (the tool from libtiff) to add this > tag. The only problem is, I don't know if any search engines index > on the contents of ImageDescription, and I also have doubts that > the contents of the tag would be preserved across any manipulation, > especially conversion to another format, even if that format had an > equivalent notion. The IPTC metadata, if embedded the way it likes it, will be round- tripped *and editable* by Photoshop (File Info), if that tool is of interest to the O.P.