<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd"><html><head><meta name="qrichtext" content="1" /><style type="text/css">p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }</style></head><body style=" font-family:'Nimbus Sans L'; font-size:14pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal;">On Thursday 02 April 2009 10:24:09 am Gilles Caulier wrote:<br>
> 2009/4/2 Dick Angus <RJA-Linux@shaw.ca>:<br>
> > am running Kubuntu 8.10, KDE 4.2.1, Digikam 0.10.0 (from Kubuntu<br>
> > repositories), and exiv2 0.16 (from Kubuntu repositories). My photos are<br>
> > stored in png format. Many photos have comments, tags, and such in the<br>
> > database. I try to use the Album -> synchronize function and nothing<br>
> > appears to happen. The metadata display on the right hand sidebar is<br>
> > blank. I try to use the image -> metadata -> functions and everything<br>
> > comes up as read-only. Have I got something set wrong or do I need to get<br>
> > version 0.18 of the exiv2 software? From my research I thought exiv2<br>
> > handled metadata edit for png from 0.16 or greater?<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> > Here is the output from exiv2 -v image.png in a terminal for one of the<br>
> > images:<br>
> > File 1/1: Mike-0043.png<br>
> > File name : Mike-0043.png<br>
> > File size : 2931006 Bytes<br>
> > MIME type : image/png<br>
> > Image size : 1200 x 1800<br>
> > Mike-0043.png: No Exif data found in the file<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> > I thought the album -> synchronize function would copy the data;<br>
> > comments, tags, and such, from the database into the exif/iptc/xmp data<br>
> > of the photo file. I also looked at the iptc and xmp and it is read-only<br>
> > as well. The metadata -> edit caption option does show the caption in<br>
> > edit mode. I must have really misunderstood something about the metadata<br>
> > and how to use it?<br>
><br>
> To edit PNG metadata, you need<br>
><br>
> 1/ Exiv2 >= 0.18<br>
><br>
> 2/ libkexiv2 provided by KDE 4.2.2 (released today) where a bug have<br>
> been fixed to be able to edit this metadata.<br>
><br>
> Best<br>
><br>
> Gilles Caulier<br>
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<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>Thanks for the quick response Gilles. I'll get exiv2 0.18 as soon as Kubuntu posts it to the repository.<br /><br>
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