> I can think of two ways of doing it without variable length fields. > A fixed length field that is a pointer to a text file.
they could call it a 'link'. > > There are already sidecar files, why not a caboose file? If there's a > file 20111116-imgp3141.pef then any notes would be put into > 20111116-imgp3141.txt or 20111116-imgp3141-1.txt for a virtual copy. > Another way to do it is to store notes in a table with a foreign key to the catalogue entry. LR uses a SQL database for the catalogue so it would be easy and wouldn't entail massively wasteful sparse storage that Stan mentioned if the notes was in a blob or something similar. > > . But still, it seems that your Notes idea could add a lot of extra > "stuff" in terms of code, processing time, and storage. Can't you just > use the Caption field that is already there within the exif? > > I'm not aware of the caption field, that may work. I take it then that > if I use it, and post the jpeg to flickr, then the caption won't show > up as the title? Or anyone looking at my exif file wouldn't see notes > like use spot removal to get all the zits off her face ? the caption and the title are separate fields. There may even be other fields in the metadata that you could use - have a browse through it, there are different views on the panel that show different sets of metadata fields. B -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
