Hi, Currently F-Spot do not import any tags at all unfortunately. In the not to far future F-Spot will read the XMP and perhaps IPTC tags and create F-Spot tags from them. Right now, F-Spot stores the tags as XMP tags embedded in each photo.
Feel free to write a small patch that will be able to read your external database and convert it to F-Spot tags :) F-Spot's tags (and all other internal information) are also stored in an SQLite database (~/.gnome2/f-spot/photos.db). If you modify this database manually take a backup first perhaps :) Then again, it should be easier to use the gui and drag and drop the tags to each photo. (I am also waiting for F-Spot to start reading the XMP tags, since most of my photos are tagged with IView MediaPro under Windows, and it stored them as IPTC and XMP tags.) /Bengt On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 22:45 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > I downloaded and installed Fspot today on my Kubuntu 5.10 system. I > have many photos that are already tagged with another (windows) > application. I want to import the photos into Fspot and have the tags > imported as well. It is obvious to me that the tagging formats are not > compatable, but I can access the tags in php and therefore create any > type of file that Fspot will accept. I simply need to know in what > format the file needs to be. > > For instance, to import the photos to KimDaBa I can create an > index.xml file that KimDaBa recognizes as it's own. Will someone > please inform me as to what type of file I need to create for Fspot? > If Fspot has no import function (indeed, I found none that would > import tags as well) then please tell me where Fspot keeps it's tag > information- I will simply edit that file / database directly. > > Thank you. > > Dotan Cohen > http://dotancohen.com > _______________________________________________ > F-spot-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/f-spot-list _______________________________________________ F-spot-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/f-spot-list
