jAlbum 14+ not reading some EXIF fields ...

AndreWolff

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jAlbum 14+ not reading some EXIF fields correctly
Posted: 16-Jul-2017 15:01

I process my photos in Lightroom and enter there too the comments / captions for my photos.
If these comment contains special characters like in Norrfällsvikken or André they are incorrect displayed in jAlbum 14, see jAlbum 14 and the PhotoSwipe skin, There is no problem with jAlbum 13, see jAlbum 13.10 and the Slide Show 4 skin

This makes jAlbum 14 in-usable for users of Lightroom in particular if your language contains many special characters like the Swedish or Norwegian language.

So as long as this problem has not been solved I can't use jAlbum 14.

So my question is:

Is it possible to insert the previous version of the metadata-extractor?

If not, I have to go back to jAlbum 13.10

Edited by: AndreWolff on 17-Jul-2017 10:56

Edited by: RobM on 20-Sep-2018 08:59
Title corrected

davidekholm

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Re: jAlbum 14 mutilates Lightroom comments
Posted: 17-Jul-2017 11:05

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It would be very hard to revert to the older version of metadata-extractor. Please attach one image that renders differently in v13 vs v14 and specify what you expect and what you get.

AndreWolff

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Re: jAlbum 14 mutilates Lightroom comments
Posted: 17-Jul-2017 12:10

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150619-125305_Norrfallsvikken.jpg (4.7 MB)

davidekholm wrote:
Please attach one image that renders differently in v13 vs v14 and specify what you expect and what you get.

The picture I used in the example above has been enclosed.
Click on the links in my previous post to see what I expect (see jAlbum 13 link) and what I get in jAlbum 14 (the other link).

karlmistelberger

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Re: jAlbum 14 mutilates Lightroom comments
Posted: 17-Jul-2017 12:39

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AndreWolff wrote:

davidekholm wrote:
Please attach one image that renders differently in v13 vs v14 and specify what you expect and what you get.

The picture I used in the example above has been enclosed.
Click on the links in my previous post to see what I expect (see jAlbum 13 link) and what I get in jAlbum 14 (the other link).

That is what I get with jAlbum v4:

http://karlmistelberger.jalbum.net/testjAlbum/#img=150619-125305_Norrfallsvikken.jpg

Anything wrong?

AndreWolff

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Re: jAlbum 14 mutilates Lightroom comments
Posted: 17-Jul-2017 12:50

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karlmistelberger wrote:
Anything wrong?

I get the same result in jAlbum 13, but jAlbum 14 has a problem, see this post and this link.

And I think you see this only under Windows 10.

Edited by: AndreWolff on 17-Jul-2017 13:02

karlmistelberger

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Re: jAlbum 14 mutilates Lightroom comments
Posted: 17-Jul-2017 13:26

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AndreWolff wrote:

karlmistelberger wrote:
Anything wrong?

I get the same result in jAlbum 13, but jAlbum 14 has a problem, see this post and this link.

And I think you see this only under Windows 10.

Edited by: AndreWolff on 17-Jul-2017 13:02

I used jAlbum v14 for generating this and it looks fine in Firefox v52.2.0 (64-Bit) : http://karlmistelberger.jalbum.net/testjAlbum/#img=150619-125305_Norrfallsvikken.jpg

AndreWolff

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Re: jAlbum 14 mutilates Lightroom comments
Posted: 17-Jul-2017 14:33

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karlmistelberger wrote:
I used jAlbum v14 for generating this

Under which operating system?

and it looks fine in Firefox v52.2.0 (64-Bit) : http://karlmistelberger.jalbum.net/testjAlbum/#img=150619-125305_Norrfallsvikken.jpg

My album shows the same bad caption both in FF and Google Chrome in Windows 10.

And in case you think the problem is caused by the skin code, click here to see part of the album made with Turtle. Click on the 3th thumb to see the same wrong caption text.

karlmistelberger

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Re: jAlbum 14 mutilates Lightroom comments
Posted: 17-Jul-2017 14:49

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AndreWolff wrote:

karlmistelberger wrote:
I used jAlbum v14 for generating this

Under which operating system?

java.specification.version=1.8
java.specification.vendor=Oracle Corporation
java.specification.name=Java Platform API Specification
java.runtime.version=1.8.0_131-b11
java.runtime.name=Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment
java.library.path=/usr/java/packages/lib/amd64:/usr/lib64:/lib64:/lib:/usr/lib
java.io.tmpdir=/tmp
java.home=/usr/lib/jalbum/jre64
java.ext.dirs=/usr/lib/jalbum/jre64/lib/ext:/usr/java/packages/lib/ext
java.endorsed.dirs=/usr/lib/jalbum/jre64/lib/endorsed
java.class.version=52.0
java.class.path=/usr/lib/jalbum/JAlbum.jar
java.awt.printerjob=sun.print.PSPrinterJob
java.awt.graphicsenv=sun.awt.X11GraphicsEnvironment
jalbum.session=1500295165620
jalbum.file.encoding=UTF-8
glass.win.uiScale=100%
glass.win.renderScale=100%
file.separator=/ 
file.encoding.pkg=sun.io
file.encoding=UTF-8
desktop.path=/home/karl/Desktop
awt.toolkit=sun.awt.X11.XToolkit

and it looks fine in Firefox v52.2.0 (64-Bit) : http://karlmistelberger.jalbum.net/testjAlbum/#img=150619-125305_Norrfallsvikken.jpg

My album shows the same bad caption both in FF and Google Chrome in Windows 10.

Your album looks bad in my browser too. Yet the data are UTF 8 according to Firefox graphics info.

And in case you think the problem is caused by the skin code, click here to see part of the album made with Turtle. Click on the 3th thumb to see the same wrong caption text.

You might have get some setting wrong. Watch for ISO 8859 settings and set them to UTF-8.

AndreWolff

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Re: jAlbum 14 mutilates Lightroom comments
Posted: 17-Jul-2017 15:02

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UTF-8.PNG (25.1 KB)

karlmistelberger wrote:

AndreWolff wrote:

karlmistelberger wrote:
I used jAlbum v14 for generating this

Under which operating system?

java.specification.version=1.8
java.specification.vendor=Oracle Corporation
desktop.path=/home/karl/Desktop
awt.toolkit=sun.awt.X11.XToolkit

I don't know which operating systemn has such a long version number, but apparently it is not Windows 10!

You might have get some setting wrong. Watch for ISO 8859 settings and set them to UTF-8.

I use UTF-8 see enclosed screen shot.

karlmistelberger

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Re: jAlbum 14 mutilates Lightroom comments
Posted: 17-Jul-2017 15:30

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AndreWolff wrote:
I don't know which operating systemn has such a long version number, but apparently it is not Windows 10!

karl@hofkirchen:~> cat /etc/os-release 
NAME="openSUSE Tumbleweed"
# VERSION="20170712"
ID=opensuse
ID_LIKE="suse"
VERSION_ID="20170712"
PRETTY_NAME="openSUSE Tumbleweed"
ANSI_COLOR="0;32"
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:opensuse:tumbleweed:20170712"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.opensuse.org"
HOME_URL="https://www.opensuse.org/"
karl@hofkirchen:~>

You might have get some setting wrong. Watch for ISO 8859 settings and set them to UTF-8.

I use UTF-8 see enclosed screen shot.

I see. As a quick test you may want to do exactly the following:

quit jAlbum
delete Sample Project
invoke jAlbum again
add 150619-125305_Norrfallsvikken.jpg to Sample Project
make and upload

The result should be: http://karlmistelberger.jalbum.net/Sample%20Portfolio/#150619-125305_Norrfallsvikken.jpg

AndreWolff

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Re: jAlbum 14 mutilates Lightroom comments
Posted: 17-Jul-2017 17:21

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Thanks Karl for your efforts to solve this problem, but I can't reproduce what you do, because you generate albums under Linux and I use Windows 10.

This is apparently a problem under Windows 10, not under Linux.

karlmistelberger

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Re: jAlbum 14 mutilates Lightroom comments
Posted: 17-Jul-2017 18:03

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AndreWolff wrote:
Thanks Karl for your efforts to solve this problem, but I can't reproduce what you do, because you generate albums under Linux and I use Windows 10.

This is apparently a problem under Windows 10, not under Linux.

jAlbum being executed by the JVM which runs on top of an OS is often blamed for some malfunction which results from the software beneath.

This alleged bug is actually caused by the KDE GUI running on top of Linux and does not occur with GNOME GUI. Thus Linux, JVM and jAlbum work properly. But KDE is buggy and needed to be fixed.

Given the symptoms you reported and the expected results with Linux the most probable cause for your problems is Windows.

AndreWolff

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Re: jAlbum 14 mutilates Lightroom comments
Posted: 17-Jul-2017 20:02

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karlmistelberger wrote:
This alleged bug is actually caused by the KDE GUI running on top of Linux and does not occur with GNOME GUI. Thus Linux, JVM and jAlbum work properly. But KDE is buggy and needed to be fixed.

Dat gaat boven mijn pet (That goes above my cap) as we say in Holland

Given the symptoms you reported and the expected results with Linux the most probable cause for your problems is Windows.

But I agree with your conclusion!

karlmistelberger

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Re: jAlbum 14 mutilates Lightroom comments
Posted: 17-Jul-2017 20:40

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AndreWolff wrote:
Dat gaat boven mijn pet (That goes above my cap) as we say in Holland

I only mentioned this as an example to illustrate what I said above. But actually it is bogus: update

Edited by: karlmistelberger on 18-Jul-2017 07:54 correction

davidekholm

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Re: jAlbum 14 mutilates Lightroom comments
Posted: 19-Jul-2017 00:07

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André, I don't know how to reproduce this problem. I've tested on Win 10 too, works fine. the Swedish "ä" is there in all its glory in the final web page. I tested with Turtle and standard skin settings. I think you need to make a minimal album project that demonstrates this problem with this image, zip it and attach it here.