[Digikam-users] Reading IPTC data in 0.8

[Dotan Cohen]

On 5/8/06, Caulier Gilles <caulier.gilles at kdemail.net> wrote:
> 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

Yes, I have sen that. How do I install that plugin?

Dotan Cohen
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