ciscrh Posted December 1, 2022 Share Posted December 1, 2022 The [XMP]Subject and [IPTC]Keywords in .orf RAW files are being corrupted when opening them on the develop persona of Affinity Photo V2. The corrupted metadata values are used when exporting the developed image as .jpg files(other save formats not investigated) This behaviour is not present in Version 1 of Affinity Photo, nor is it a problem when opening .jpg files in Version 2 of Affinity Photo (ie, saved versions of the files retain the original metadata tag values in my tests). I add keyword & subject tags to my RAW (.orf) files using a script referencing the ExifTool utility. I add the same list to both tags because different programs seem to reference different tags. As an example, the following file has 4 subject/keywords tags... eT>> g:\tmp\affinityPhoto\221111-1578.orf [XMP] Subject : peak, dark peak, hathersage, fg [IPTC] Keywords : peak, dark peak, hathersage, fg When I open the file in Affinity Photo V2 (APv2) the keywords tag is missing and the subject tag has only one value, as shown in the Raw Data view of the Metadata ... <dc:subject> <rdf:Bag> <rdf:li>fg</rdf:li> </rdf:Bag> </dc:subject> Opening the same file in APv1 gives the following... <dc:subject> <rdf:Bag> <rdf:li>dark peak</rdf:li> <rdf:li>fg</rdf:li> <rdf:li>hathersage</rdf:li> <rdf:li>peak</rdf:li> </rdf:Bag> </dc:subject> ... <pdf:Keywords>fg</pdf:Keywords> So when I save the developed file as a JPG file I've now lost most of my tags if I use APv2 (only 1 tag value is retained)... eT>> g:\tmp\affinityPhoto\221111-1578-orfAPv2.jpg [XMP] Subject : fg [IPTC] Keywords : fg When using APv1 the keywords & subject tag lists are retained as originally entered. 221111-1578.orf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl123 Posted December 1, 2022 Share Posted December 1, 2022 Related: Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciscrh Posted December 1, 2022 Author Share Posted December 1, 2022 7 minutes ago, carl123 said: Related: In my tests the corruption did not happening when starting with a .jpg file (in this case using the .jpg file created by my camera at the same time as the .orf file)... eT>> g:\tmp\affinityPhoto\221111-1578-jpgAPv2.jpg [[XMP] Subject : dark peak, fg, hathersage, peak [IPTC] Keywords : dark peak, fg, hathersage, peak Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Dan C Posted December 9, 2022 Staff Share Posted December 9, 2022 Hi @ciscrh, Thanks for your report and our sincerest apologies for the delayed response here. We are exceptionally busy following the release of V2 and we thank you for your continued patience and understanding here. I can confirm however that this issue has already been fixed in our latest beta version! You can download the beta version from the below link, which can be installed alongside the retail versions and activated using your Affinity ID - I hope this helps Quote Please note - I am currently out of the office for a short while whilst recovering from surgery (nothing serious!), therefore will not be available on the Forums during this time. Should you require a response from the team in a thread I have previously replied in - please Create a New Thread and our team will be sure to reply as soon as possible. Many thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciscrh Posted December 21, 2022 Author Share Posted December 21, 2022 Hi, I didn't bother with the beta version. The recent 2.0.3 release has restored the requested tags in developed .orf files saved as .jpg files. Thank you :-) Dan C 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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