Am Montag, 31. Dezember 2012, 14:36:50 schrub Willem Ferguson: > Dear All,
Hi. > One of the important needs that I have is to have EXIF metadata for > images easily and rapidly available for those people that I communicate > with and who are (still) working in Microsoft and who are using a wide > array of software to view and manage images. The problem has two facets: > 1) Metadata pertaining to the original images. Dt writes metadata to > Sidecar files outside of the RAW images (CR2 in my case). I think this > is a good solution. After all, I am the only likely person to handle or > process the original images. > 2) Metadata of derivative images arising from "developing" or processing > of original RAW images. For myself, these are typically JPEG or TIFF > files. These are the images often shared with others. Having these > images in a Sidecar file is unproductive, because only Dt can truly > understand the content of the Sidecar files that it wrote. Even Digikam > has a problem with understanding the Sidecar files generated by Dt. A > better solution would be to incorporate the Metadata (of which the image > description is the most important; e.g. "Extent of burned grassland at > Exeter at the end of the 2009 dry season") into the JPG or TIFF image > itself. However, the proviso is that it should be done in a way that > almost any imaging software can display this information. At the moment > I put this information in the file name but it is a highly inconvenient > and inefficient approach. > I appears that there are strong limitations imposed by the EXIF > specification. For instance, it appears that a "Title" or "Caption" > identifier is not normally allowed. Moving to IPTC is an obvious > possibility, but few imaging programs support this. > > Is there an obvious way out that I have overlooked? What exactly are you trying to say? We already embed all the metadata we have into the exported images (provided the format supports that). The "only" problem I currently see is that we lack a convenient way of editing all the data, but that is on the agenda already. That, and a way to decide what metadata to *exclude* from being embedded into the exported file. > Kind regards, > Willem Ferguson Tobias
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