Klaus Major wrote:
Hi Alex,
Sivakatirswami wrote:
...
I actually stopped work on that library, and switched to using a set of tools and utilities via shell. The ones I use are at
http://home.arcor.de/ahuggel/exiv2/ and reportedly work (or can easily be made to work) on Mac ( as well as Win and Linux which is what is directly supported). What I do is use them to bulk-extract the info I want from a directory at a time, then process those separate files in Rev, and then use the tools to re-insert the data.
I do however agree - having the metadata as part of the file is the right way to do it (until we get metadata aware file systems which will ensure that the metadata goes everywhere the file goes). I use this extract-modify-reinsert as a purely transient state, I try not to leave significant data in the additional files for any length of time,
thanks for the URL, very interesting...
But maybe you can give me a hint (or two :-)
When i use the ugly dosbox it works fine, if i put everything in my "homefolder"
-> C:\Documents and Settings\klaus
But when i try the same command in Rev with:
put shell("exiv2 test.jpg")
i get an error and the result is not empty (but also not the wanted info ;-)...
How can i put the returned values into a field in Rev and how can i define WHERE the app "exiv2.exe"
and my image are located on my hd within "shell"? Know what i mean?
Thank you very much in advance!
Well, Klaus, first I have to confess that what I *actually* do is just run the exiv2 utility from an ugly dosbox (actually, a clean, sparse, elegant Emacs shell buffer :-), then run my Rev script, then run the utility again ..... (I do this once a month - wasn't worth the coding time to build it into a script)
But it can be done from Rev and shell ... I'm not an expert in this, so there may be easier ways than this ....
put shell("exiv2 test.jpg")
I think a shell is run in the current defaultFolder of Rev - is that set to your home folder ?
Here's a script I have used; note I ran into trouble with quoting of file names containing spaces - I eventually figured out that I needed to quote the command name, and I cheated and moved the files into a folder with no spaces in its name, so the "answer" I give when I run this is something like "D:\Downloads\aaa" I can't find a form that works when my photo folder is say "D:\Our Documents\exiv2-0.6.1-win\aaa"
on mouseUp
answer folder "Folder"
put it into thePlace
set defaultFolder to thePlace
put files() into tFiles
filter tFiles with "*.JPG"
repeat for each line fil in tFiles
put shell(quote & "D:\Our Documents\exiv2-0.6.1-win\exiv2"& quote & " " & thePlace & "\" & fil & " " ) after msg
end repeat
end mouseUp
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