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alexhenes wrote:I recall in a post a few months back you suggested embedding the descriptions into the image. Is this your recommend approach to descriptions in X3?

mjau-mjau wrote:X3 currently uses 2 fields title and description from the image IPTC data. "Title" and "description" may be referred differently from other applications for example name, caption, documentTitle and more. X3 gets them by special codes reference (just so you know the actual codes):

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data['title'] = $iptc["2#005"][0];
data['description'] = $iptc["2#120"][0];

alexhenes wrote:on a related note... in the GUI... will X3 replace underscores in folder name with spaces?

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filename.jpg:
  title: Image Title
  description: This is the description right here.
another.jpg:
  title: Nice Smile
  description: Watch the kids smile as the clown arrives.

winph wrote:what filename should i save this?

title: Title here
label:
description: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.
layout: 
context: 
folders: 
gallery: 
image:
filename.jpg:
  title: Image Title
  description: This is the description right here.
another.jpg:
  title: Nice Smile
  description: Watch the kids smile as the clown arrives.
content: |

winph wrote:Thanks. It work but can i still use the image: for "Preview image for the page, used in context layout and in sharing."

winph wrote:btw if images starts with "_" it will not show up. Some of my images starts with underscore because of ADOBE RGB from canon system.

alexhenes wrote:Will Googlebot and other crawlers be able to read the text that is embedded within an image?

mjau-mjau wrote:Image meta data is incredibly complex, because there is IPTC and EXIF, each with hundreds of options, and each manufacturer and application often setting them differently.

X3 currently uses 2 fields title and description from the image IPTC data. "Title" and "description" may be referred differently from other applications for example name, caption, documentTitle and more. X3 gets them by special codes reference (just so you know the actual codes):

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data['title'] = $iptc["2#005"][0];
data['description'] = $iptc["2#120"][0];

data['headline'] = $iptc["2#105"][0];

sprocket wrote:Hey Karl, I used the headline IPTC to automate the thousand of images in my X2 gallery and hope you would consider adding data['headline'] to that list of IPTC codes to be compatible with past features. I tested it and it works with my images.

data['title'] = $iptc["2#105"][0];