[Digikam-users] Reread Metadata from Images not importing EXIF "Image Description" as caption.

[Gilles Caulier]

2010/6/1 Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com>:
> 2010/6/1 Marcel Wiesweg <marcel.wiesweg at gmx.de>:
>>
>>
>>> In Digikam 1.2.0, I used "Reread Metadata from Images". The EXIF field
>>> "Image Description" is set and recognised by Digikam in the "Image
>>> Information" tab, but not set as caption in Digikams database after
>>> using "Reread Metadata from Images". Is there  a way to have this set
>>> as caption from within digikam, or would this take some external
>>> script that edits the database directly? I had such a script years
>>> ago, but I'm sure it'd take rewriting as I assume Digikams database
>>> structure has changed in the past couple of years.
>>
>> We currently do not read this property. We read a good choice of other
>> properties - three XMP values, Exif UserComment, IPTC Caption -  but this one
>> may have slipped attention.
>>
>> Gilles:
>> Exif.Image.ImageDescription, 270 / 0x10e
>> Should we add this to DMetadata::getImageComments() ?
>
> yes it can :
>
> 0x010e  270     IFD0    Exif.Image.ImageDescription     Ascii   A character
> string giving the title of the image. It may be a comment such as
> "1988 company picnic" or the like. Two-bytes character codes cannot be
> used. When a 2-bytes code is necessary, the Exif Private tag
> <UserComment> is to be used.
>
> But not in priority. other tags which support UTF-8 must be checked in first.
>

In fact, KExiv2::getExifComment() must be patched. this tag must be
checked after Exif.Photo.UserComment of course

I think that we can write comment into this tag too, through
KExiv2::setExifComment()

Gilles