<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"><html><head><meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></head><body ><div style='font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;'><div><div style=""><span class="font" style="font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt"><div>Thanks Gilles,<br></div><div>I think you mean that Shotwell doesnt use the right standard? But to be honest that went straight over my head :)<br></div><div><br></div><div>I actually found a way, at least to write the Digikam tags to the IPTC keywords, since I think this wasn't working in the version of Digikam that I had installed on my Xubuntu 16.04<br></div><div><br></div><div>I was previously on version 5.5.0 (I think from the Philip Johnsson PPA - ppa:philip5/extra)<br></div><div><br></div><div>I got the updated version 5.8.0 Appimage<br></div><div><br></div><div>With this updated version, when I did<br></div><div><br></div><div>- Select all the tagged images<br></div><div>- item > Write Metadata to Image <br></div><div><br></div><div>it worked and now all the tags appear as IPTC keywords<br></div><div><br></div><div>However, on opening Shotwell many files have all the people tags and its a real mess<br></div><div><br></div><div>Time to give up on this<br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for your help<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div class="zmail_extra"><div><div><br></div><div>---- On Sat, 17 Mar 2018 16:43:58 +0000 <b>Gilles Caulier <<a target="_blank" href="mailto:caulier.gilles@gmail.com">caulier.gilles@gmail.com</a>></b> wrote ----<br></div></div><div><br></div><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 6px; margin: 0 0 0 5px"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi,<br></div><div><br></div><div>Face tags are stored in a dedicated section from XMP (standardized by Adobe), and of course, Shotwell must read this section for inter-operability.<br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/TagNames/MWG.html#Regions" target="_blank">https://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/TagNames/MWG.html#Regions</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>digiKam code with tags list set :<br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://cgit.kde.org/digikam.git/tree/libs/dmetadata/dmetadata.cpp#n1671" target="_blank">https://cgit.kde.org/digikam.git/tree/libs/dmetadata/dmetadata.cpp#n1671</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>If Shotwell do not read the standard, we cannot do it instead (:=)))...<br></div><div><br></div><div>To tag in batch, you can use Exiftool or Exiv2 CLI tool.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Gilles Caulier<br></div><div><br></div></div><div><div><br></div><div><div>2018-03-17 14:11 GMT+01:00 Leigh S <span><<a href="mailto:leigh@sutherland.pt" target="_blank">leigh@sutherland.pt</a>></span>:<br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 0.8ex; border-left: 1px rgb(204, 204, 204) solid; padding-left: 1ex"><div><u></u><br></div><div><div style=""><span class="font" style="font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt"><div>Hello,<br></div><div><div><blockquote><div><br></div><div>I have xubuntu 16.04LTS<br></div><div><br></div><div>I have used Digikam to scan for faces and to add people tags<br></div><div><br></div><div>However, I also use Shotwell, and now I cant get the tags from Digikam to Shotwell<br></div><div><br></div><div>I am trying to write them to the files in Digikam so that Shotwell will hopefully see them, but with little luck<br></div><div><br></div><div>I have found that by manually editing the IPTC keyword of a photo in Digikam then this keyword is recognised by Shotwell as a tag.<br></div><div><br></div><div>However, I cant find a way to do this for multiple photos at once, and I would like somehow to transpose the Digikam tags to this IPTC keyword<br></div><div><br></div><div>Could anyone give a simple way of doing this please? <br></div><div>Obviously I am not very adept at this :)<br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks<br></div></blockquote></div></div><blockquote><br></blockquote><div><br></div></span></span></div></div></blockquote></blockquote></div><div><br></div></span></span></div></div><div><br></div></div><br></body></html>