[Digikam-users] Reading IPTC data in 0.8

[Caulier Gilles]

Le Lundi 08 Mai 2006 09:28 PM, Dotan Cohen a écrit :
> I'm trying to import photos from a Windows program, BrilliantPhoto,
> into DigiKam. BrilliantPhoto stord all the tags as IPTC data. How can
> I make these tags visible in DigiKam? I'm on Kubuntu 5.10 and DigiKam
> 0.8.1.
>
> If DigiKam cannot do this natively, I can read the IPTC data and
> output a text file with the data, be it an XML file or SQL that can be
> inserted into a database. What format can DigiKam import? A simple
> example file with a few photos should get me started.
>
> Thanks.

digiKam 0.8.x do not support IPTC. current implementation from svn yes !!! 
(next 0.9.0 release)

Look in digiKam web project page recent screenshots taken with current 
implementation, like this :

http://www.digikam.org/?q=node/103

To extract or set IPTC metadata in JPEG file, digiKam use Exiv2 library. A 
command tool is available in this lib. Look here :

http://www.exiv2.org/

Regards

Gilles Caulier