[Digikam-users] label data for images

[Geert Janssens]

On Tuesday 28 April 2009, Mikolaj Machowski wrote:
> On Tuesday 28 April 2009 22:49:00 George Shuklin wrote:
> > > For me it copies with tags (and comments and rationgs). Which version
> > > of digiKam are you using?
> >
> > I use a debian (lenny) repo:
> >
> > Qt: 3.3.8b
> > KDE: 3.5.10
> > digiKam: 0.9.4
>
> Very old version. Don't remember if that was normal behavior - but I
> suspect it was.
>
Tags are stored in an internal digikam database by default. Depending on your 
configuration settings, they can additionally be stored as metadata inside the 
image. I don't have digikam 0.9.x available anymore, but look in the 
preferences for options regarding EXIF and IPTC. There are checkboxes there 
that will allow you to store tags, comments and ratings with the image or not 
(as Exif or IPTC keywords).

This will only work though for certain image formats. I know jpg works and tif 
doesn't for me. Which image types digikam can store metadata in, depends on 
the version of libexiv2 on your system. This is the library that handles the 
metadata insided your images. My current version of this library is 17.1. The 
most recent version is 18.1.

For reference, http://dev.exiv2.org/wiki/exiv2/Supported_image_formats
shows a list of supported image formats with the latest version if libexiv2.

Regards,

Geert