On 10-12-09 7:35 PM, Richard Querin wrote: > I have never been > happy with doing all that organizing work and having it live in a silo of > sorts. I may be wrong in this, but I don't for instance think there is a way > to migrate all of that metadata (ratings etc) that I might have created in > F-Spot to some other photo management app. I would think the same thing goes > for commercial apps like Lightroom etc. I've always wondered why more apps > are not available that use IPTC tagging (which is embedded in the image file > itself). I know that jBrout can do this, but then again why doesn't f-spot > or Digikam etc..
Forget IPTC. XMP allow storing the rating. I have seen that (and the keyword, IPTC data) being transferred between two apps (none of them running on Linux or being free software) through XMP. Back when I was working on Niepce Digital (a Free software app) it was part of the design goal to have all of this metadata stored as XMP so that it be portable. And it is, the rating works as I have successfully implemented it, importing from my sample from Lightroom I had at the time.[1] Exempi and libopenraw were other bricks for that grand scheme of things. Hub [1] not saying the app is useful, but it could have been and done all that stuff you wish for. _______________________________________________ Rawstudio-users mailing list [email protected] http://rawstudio.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rawstudio-users
