[Digikam-users] Lightroom Integration: how?

[Paul Waldo]

----- "Gilles Caulier" <caulier.gilles at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2009/8/18 Mikolaj Machowski <mikmach at wp.pl>:
> > On Tuesday 18 August 2009 15:29:59 Paul Waldo wrote:
> >> I must be thick-headed, as I can't see how to do it.  I'm searching
> for a
> >>  menu option that says something like "Write all tags to XMP file
> that
> >>  LightRoom can read", but there must be some other way to do it.
>  Any
> >>  instructions would be greatly appreciated!
> >>
> >> BTW, none of my images have any metadata embedded in them, as they
> are
> >>  mostly raw
> >
> > Digikam doesn't support xmp sidecars, yet.
> 
> Mik,
> 
> Well, yes and no. For reading, Exiv2 try to find an xmp sidecar file
> with same image file name. If sidecar is found, exiv2 use it instead
> to read image file.
> 
> For writting, nothing is implemented yet.
> 
> This is true for last Exiv2 0.18.2
> 
> Gilles

OK, no wonder I could not find out how to export the data!  So, there is no way currently to export the tags from my Canon Digital Rebel and Canon Powershot G1 raw files into Lightroom, right?

Paul