How to track this error

[Winfried]

Sometimes I get the following error message during saving an images:

Fehlermeldung.jpg (54.15 KiB) Viewed 3815 times

If I switch off the saving ot the script the save works.

[jsachs]

If you can send me a copy of the file, I will take a look and see if I need anything else.

jsachs@dl-c.com

[Winfried]

I just send a mail

[Winfried]

... and a second one

[jsachs]

Unfortunately, it seems the WIC JPEG encoder does cannot handle the large amount of metadata of long scripts. Consequently, I have removed the option of saving embedded scripts in JPEG files, at least for now. Embedded scripts in TIFF files are still OK.

[MarkT]

Winfried, just out of curiosity, how many transformations were used in the images that failed to save? I have not encountered the error, but I think the most steps I've used might be 6 or 8...

[jsachs]

There were about 6 steps, but the cloning step had a lot of coordinates tracking each cursor move so the script was about 22kb.

[MarkT]

Thank you. I guess it's not a problem: if you want to save the script save as TIFF, otherwise, save final image as JPEG. Unless, of course, you can find an elegant solution to this otherwise, Jonathan.

[jsachs]

You can always save the script manually - or I could add an option on File Save to save the script with the same filename as the image but with a .script extension. This has the advantage that it would work with any file type but personally I dislike these sidecar files that can get lost or out of sync with the image. I was really unhappy that this didn't work since embedded scripts are one of the nicer features of PWP 8.

[Winfried]

This has the advantage that it would work with any file type but personally I dislike these sidecar files that can get lost or out of sync with the image.

This is why Adobe "invented" xmp. :-) (of cause they had other reasons) The xmp-structure has to be embedded into files like *.jpg, *.tif,*.dng. So your just have sidecar files for file types, that do not support the embedding of xmp structures (i.e. raw files). You can define your own (PWP8) namespace.
A starting point for further reading could be: http://www.photometadata.org/ or http://www.metadataworkinggroup.org/