[Digikam-users] tags, rating and comments in TIFF files

[Piotr Tarnowski]

Thanks to all of you for quick response,

I will join digikam-devel and present the subject there.
The problem is that I have to find a solution quickly and I can only 
spend a few nights solving it. My main goal is to register all my photos 
in digikam (which cames from scanner and are TIFFs), so probably I will 
not be able to wait for exiv2 lib to cover TIFF. I prefer to have slow 
but working solution than nothing, but of course I would be very happy 
if my effort could be useful for community as well.

/Piotr

Dnia 22-10-2007 o godz. 9:48 Gilles Caulier napisał(a):
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>
> 2007/10/22, Arnd Baecker <arnd.baecker at web.de>:
>
> Piotr, Using libtiff to write metadata is not the right way . Libtiff 
require to rewrite the full image, not to set only tags in metadata 
section of file.
>
>
> Note : Coments, rating, etc are already writed in TIFF file when you 
save image from Editor... But of course this is not yet done in fly like 
with JPEG from Album view.
>
> >
> > digikam uses exiv2 to access and write meta-data.
> > Support for tiff is being worked on (see http://www.exiv2.org/),
> > but I don't know the current status.
> TIFF writing IO with Exiv2 will be the next job to do . Currently, XMP 
is the main task for next Exiv2 release
> 0.16 planed to December. TIFF writing mode is temporaly stopped.
>
> Few developement have been already done but not yet finalized...
>
> >
> > So to me it seems that for a proper solution to
> > the problem you discuss, it should be done on the level of exiv2.
> >
> > Gilles, and Andreas will be able to give a more detailed account on this,
> > but I would suggest to get Andreas Huggel's from exiv2 opinion first,
> > before you start hacking ;-)
> Andreas is not in this room, only in digikam-devel ML. You can contact 
him directly at "ahuggel at gmx dot net" or using Exiv2 ML
>
>
> > I am sure that contributions are very welcome!
> yes TIFF writting mode is very important for the future
>
>  Gilles
>

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