<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/1/11 Marcel Wiesweg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:marcel.wiesweg@gmx.de">marcel.wiesweg@gmx.de</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im"><br>
> I have some questions about image metadata, digikam options, and<br>
> information in the database.<br>
><br>
> 1. What controls what metadata gets written to the database during<br>
> image import?<br>
<br>
</div>Any metadata for which we have a field in the database will be read.<br>
Regard the database as a cache in that respect.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
><br>
> 2. What affect (if any) does changes in Menu/Settings/Configure<br>
> digiKam/Metadata have on what metadata goes into the database?<br>
<br>
</div>This for writing to a file only<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> Is all<br>
> the information displayed in the Metadata left side panel also in the<br>
> database? Or just some of it?<br>
<br>
</div>The Metadata tab reads from the file only. The summary properties tab e.g. is<br>
fed from the db.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
><br>
> 3. Under Menu/Album there are two options: "Write Metadata to Images"<br>
> and "Reread Metadata from Images". I know those sound<br>
> self-explanatory, but what really happens?<br>
<br>
</div>Reread -> Full rescan as if the file was scanned for the first time<br>
Write -> Write from db to file, according to options<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> When might one want (or not<br>
> want) to use either of these alternatives? Is it safe to assume that<br>
> writing metadata to a raw file is still not advised, even if possible<br>
> (putting dng aside - I don't use dng)?<br>
<br>
</div>Will depend on the individual raw file type<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> I'm doing a little tag-pruning,<br>
> so would it be wise to write the updated tags back to the jpegs?<br>
<br>
</div>Yes. Doing this automatically is a TODO<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> How<br>
> about tiff? png? ppm? Is there a list somewhere of supported file<br>
> formats?<br>
<br>
</div>Jpg, Tiff Png have of course first-class support. Dont know if PPM supports<br>
metadata. We use libexiv2: <a href="http://www.exiv2.org" target="_blank">www.exiv2.org</a> there'll be a list<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br>PPM only support on comment field limited to 256 char if i remember. No more. Forget this format to play with photo. <br><br>Note : metadata image limitation can be dropped with XMP sidecar support implemented in 2.0.0<br>
<br>Gilles Caulier</div></div>