Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Viewing jpg images with comments

2017-04-20 Thread Richard Guy Briggs 
On 2017-04-20 17:53, J C Nash wrote:
> I've been trying a number of viewers (more than I care to name!).
> 
> It seems that mapivi and the libjpeg-progs (rdjpgcom and wrjpgcom)
> put the "comment" somewhere different from geeqie and pix and 

Along with Diane, I'd have to put in a good word for geeqie.  I started with
gqview (from which geeqie was forked) and while the switchover to geeqie was a
bit difficult due to learning curve and muscle memory, I have been pretty happy
with it.  It is quite customizable.

In particular, under "Edit"->"Preferences"->"Windows"->"Overlay Screen Display"
you can customize the Image Overlay Template to list any information you want.
Since it is possible to add EXIF information as I have done for
exif.photo.datetimeoriginal: %Exif.Photo.DateTimeOriginal%
it should be possible to add something similar for IPTC fields.  If you figure
out a recipe, I'd be interested to add it to my overlay template and
potentially start using IPTC fields myself.  Also, adding a hotkey to geeqie to
be able to easily edit IPTC fields would be a nice touch.

I've already added keyboard shortcut customizations to invoke ufraw, gimp,
rotations, pushing batches of images to my next stage of processing, etc...

You can enable/disable the overlay with "i" while viewing an image.  "j"
changes overlay histogram log/linear.  "k" changes overlay histogram
all/r/g/b/black.  It may even be possible to get the IPTC field text added to
the bottom status bar along with the file selection stats, image stats, pixel
RGB values and co-ordiate stats, zoom, etc.

> Gimp and Irfanview are happy to show the comments I put in, but the
> interface isn't set up for browsing the image + comments quickly.
> 
> In the next few days I'll try to set up a little review and
> put it on the oclug wiki to provide a focus. Otherwise one can get
> a lot of unnecessary back and forth. In part it seems jpeg files
> can have information in lots of different pockets, and different
> software uses different locations.
> 
> FWIW, I've found a number of review items on the net are rather
> optimistic about the capabilities of some of the software. After I
> installed some, I could not find some features claimed for some
> apps.
> 
> Best, JN
> 
> 
> 
> On 2017-04-20 04:55 PM, Dianne Skoll wrote:
> >On Thu, 20 Apr 2017 16:52:43 -0400
> >Dianne Skoll  wrote:
> >
> >>Sure; geeqie.  Packaged in Debian and source is at
> >>http://geeqie.sourceforge.net/
> >
> >*sigh*, make that http://geeqie.org/
> >
> >Regards,
> >
> >Dianne.
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Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Viewing jpg images with comments

2017-04-20 Thread J C Nash 

I've been trying a number of viewers (more than I care to name!).

It seems that mapivi and the libjpeg-progs (rdjpgcom and wrjpgcom)
put the "comment" somewhere different from geeqie and pix and 

Gimp and Irfanview are happy to show the comments I put in, but the
interface isn't set up for browsing the image + comments quickly.

In the next few days I'll try to set up a little review and
put it on the oclug wiki to provide a focus. Otherwise one can get
a lot of unnecessary back and forth. In part it seems jpeg files
can have information in lots of different pockets, and different
software uses different locations.

FWIW, I've found a number of review items on the net are rather
optimistic about the capabilities of some of the software. After I
installed some, I could not find some features claimed for some
apps.

Best, JN



On 2017-04-20 04:55 PM, Dianne Skoll wrote:

On Thu, 20 Apr 2017 16:52:43 -0400
Dianne Skoll  wrote:


Sure; geeqie.  Packaged in Debian and source is at
http://geeqie.sourceforge.net/


*sigh*, make that http://geeqie.org/

Regards,

Dianne.
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Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Viewing jpg images with comments

2017-04-20 Thread Dianne Skoll 
On Thu, 20 Apr 2017 16:43:23 -0400
J C Nash  wrote:

> Does anyone know of a suitable viewer.

Sure; geeqie.  Packaged in Debian and source is at
http://geeqie.sourceforge.net/

(I sent an earlier email with a screenshot, but it was held up for being
too large.)

Regards,

Dianne.
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[OCLUG-Tech] Viewing jpg images with comments

2017-04-20 Thread J C Nash 

I've been using mapivi to add comments to jpg photos. This works fairly well, 
but the
interface is not terribly nice for just viewing the images. Unfortunately, I 
can't seem
to find a (linux) image viewer that shows the image and displays the comments 
too. In fact,
a lot of viewers make it difficult or impossible to see them, and all (except 
mapivi, which
doesn't do a great display of the image) fail to show the comments without 
doing a lot of
extra mouse clicks.

Essentially, I'd like to configure a fairly ordinary image viewer to show the 
IPTC comment
with the image.

Does anyone know of a suitable viewer. Since libjpeg-progs provides rdjpgcom, 
it OUGHT to be
available, but ...

Cheers, JN
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