On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 10:03 +0200, Frederic Peters wrote: > Hi Bengt, > > > I think my XMP import patch (which is based on Gabriels GThumb tags > > import) could be a good start. But not sure F-Spot reads/finds the various > > IPTC tags though. > > F-Spot already displays country, city and keywords (as "Subject and > Keywords") in the metadata browser. > > > There was a link to a C# library to read IPTC tags on > > the mailing list a year ago or more. > > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/f-spot-list/2005-April/msg00014.html > > I had a quick a look at this, it works but some files had suspect > copyright notices and I didn't go further. > > > > Not sure we should use his library, or try to get an IPTC class reader for > > f-spot. > > IptcFile.cs may be enough. I'll look into all of this next week. > Any IPTC contents keywords will be picked up by the Select () call that retrieves the metadata. F-Spot parses the iptc data and converts the important keys to XMP. And yes the code in IptcFile is a very simple IPTC parser I wrote.
Other image metadata for all the various file formats will also be picked up and converted to XMP through that call. --Larry _______________________________________________ F-spot-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/f-spot-list
