Feature #572
exiv2 tool: It should be possible to insert newlines in text strings.
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Description
Some people want line breaks in their strings. While it shouldn't be a problem with the C++ API, it is apparently not possible to do this with the exiv2 command line tool.
Additional information:
http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/exiv2/message/1371
There was another similar request for this in JPEG comments once.
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Updated by Andreas Huggel almost 13 years ago
On Linux in a bash shell, this works:
ahuggel@mowgli> exiv2 -v -M 'set Exif.Image.Model Yet another fancy > Olympus camera' IMAGE.JPG
i.e., just hitting return inside a quoted string (single or double
quotes) and continuing on the next line.
- how to do it in Windows
- how to do it in a command file
Updated by Andreas Huggel almost 12 years ago
- Status changed from New to Resolved
- Target version set to 0.20
- % Done changed from 0 to 100
Special characters incl. newlines and carriage returns can be escaped now.
#572: Escape special characters in the JPEG comment (using the new function by Leo Sutic.