I use DT 1.2.3 under openSUSE 12.3 and KDE 4.10.5. I develop my photos from the raw cr2 files out of a Canon EOS 50D.
There are mainly two features I miss in DT (so far): - hierarchical tags - borders with captions. So I tag the exported jpg files (100%) in digikam. Then I import them in gimp (2.8.4) to apply a script (selfmade to my needs) to append a border with a caption to the picture together with some minor corrections that are not yet possible in DT. I keep the xcf files and export from them in batch mode (selfmade gimp script) to jpg files. So I am able to create unscaled and downscaled versions (according to further usage) in batch mode. My script takes care to scale down only the picture and to append border and caption as new to the smaller image (so the edges remain clean). Unfortunately gimp doesn't export the xmp data provided by digikam. So I copy the metadata (exiftool in batch mode) from the jpg files that come from DT to the jpg files that come from gimp. But exiftool keeps to throw warnings like "Invalid CustomFunctions2 data". I compared the metadata read by exiftool from the original camera jpg files (as created besides cr2) with the jpg files exported by DT. There are four warnings right at the start: - Invalid CustomFunctions2 data - Invalid AFMicroAdj data - Invalid VignettingCorr data - Invalid VignettingCorr2 data The tags coming from digikam are present in both files. In the "IFD0" group the tags "X Resolution", "Y Resolution", and "Resolution Unit" are missing. The "IFD1" group is missing completely. In the "Canon" group - the "Quality" tag has changed from "Fine" to "RAW" - the "Lens Type" tag has changed from "Canon EF-S 17-85mm f4-5.6 IS USM" to "Unknown (59904)" - the "User Def 1 Picture Style" (also 2 and 3) has changed from "Standard" to "Unknown (33024)" - the tags "AF Micro Adj Mode", "AF Micro Adj Value", "Peripheral Lighting", "Peripheral Lighting Value", "Original Image Width", "Original Image Height", and "Peripheral Lighting Setting" are missing. The "CanonCustom" group is missing completely. Is "CustomFunctions2" a group provided by DT? Interesting: The "Exif Byte Order" tag in the "File" group has changed from "Little-endian (Intel, II)" to "Big-endian (Motorola, MM)". Is this information helpful? I can upload the OO-Calc file showing the entire comparison, if desired. It includes the metadata of following files (as read by exiftool): - original cr2 - original jpg - jpg as exported from DT and tagged by digikam - jpg as exported from gimp and with metadata exported by exiftool. I don't really need the metadata that cannot be read by exiftool. But somebody might. Volker ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rapidly troubleshoot problems before they affect your business. Most IT organizations don't have a clear picture of how application performance affects their revenue. With AppDynamics, you get 100% visibility into your Java,.NET, & PHP application. Start your 15-day FREE TRIAL of AppDynamics Pro! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=84349351&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Darktable-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/darktable-users
