[Digikam-devel] [Digikam-users] IPTC and XMP "title" tag information

[kunal ghosh]

One of the use-case for scripting in digikam

On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 12:17 AM, Rainer Krienke <krienke at uni-koblenz.de>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I just found out that digikam when I set an image description in the
> appropriate field in the right sidetab where you can also set tags, that
> this
> information is written into the IPTC "caption" and XMP "description"
> entries.
>
> Unfortunately I am working right now with zenfolio webgallery services
> (www.zenfolio.com). They do for example provide flash based slideshows you
> can
> embed in your own webpage and these slideshows can also show a title of the
> photo displayed, eg where it was taken.
>
> The problem is: digikam writes the informatiion I entered to the caption
> and
> zenfolio wants to read this information from the title of IPTC. So the
> description is always empty because zenfolio and digikam do not agree where
> to
> search for a description or title (both make sense for describing  what a
> photo shows).
>
> Is there any way I can make digikam write the captions text also to the
> title
> entry automatically? I know I could use the metadata editor but this would
> mean I have to manually copy the information for each photo for IPTC and
> XMP.
> This is not really an option.
>
> Is there a way to tell digikam what information to write to which fields in
> IPTC and XMP?
>
> Thanks
> Rainer
>
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Kunal Ghosh
Dept of Computer Sc. & Engineering.
Sir MVIT
Bangalore,India

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