I asked this once a couple of years ago, I will ask again:
has anyone tackled reading and writing IPTC data to and from a JPEG? I've developed several applications that now use a some*file.jpg some*file.txt Model for captions to files. it's actually a very simple and powerful model... if you have these two comprising the "data layer" you can put them into any presentation layer you want. They travel well. some*file.txt can be opened edited and read by any text editor on any machine on any OS etc... CGI's can read that file and do *whatever* The problem this solution does not meld well with any existing applications other than my own tools. There are many instances have a Rev tools that could read and write IPTC metadata that would travel with the file would be very useful. I could easily integrate the two models where some*file.txt contained the IPTC data in a raw ASCII delimited format (if that were possible) and have the best of both worlds. BTW: Micro$soft purchased our favorite photo management tool: iView -- now called "Microsoft Expression" destined to become MS's answer to Adobe's Bridge... Pray that they do not End of Life this marvelous tool. Like they did with Living Cells Sprite Animation program... which was a bright innovation that died in the grip of MS. The more we see all these machinations over market share and strangling innovation via software hegemony the more one leans toward open source... if only on principle alone. Sivakatirswami _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
