[Digikam-users] Digikam 2.9: Save image comments to file

[Markus Ebert]

Hi,

sorry I use the German translation and thought comment would be the 
right translation, in fact I mean the captions.
The title is indeed saved to the jpg, but the caption is not (I now also 
used okteta; there is also an xmp-section)
The same is true for the xmp-files - title saved, caption not. Indeed 
there is not even a dc:description section.

I suspect that something is wrong with a tool digikam relies on (e.g. 
exiftool did not work out box as it turned out dependencies were wrong), 
so is there a possibility to turn on a debug mode such that I can see 
what happens when digikam tries to write the metadata? Or maybe a logfile?
(Starting in console doesn't reveal anything)


Regards,
Markus



Am 10.10.2012 21:42, schrieb Peter Albrecht:
> Hi,
>
> what do you mean by "comments"?
> In the right side view, selecting "Caption/Tags", I can see
> "Title" and "Captions".
>
> I enter unique texts in these input fields and click apply.
> Then I look at the jpg file with okteta (hex viewer).
>
> I can find
>    - the caption seven times
>    - the title two times
>
> For example in the XMP-Part of the file:
>
>    - caption can be found at:
>       /x:xmpmeta/rdf:RDF/rdf:Description/dc:description/...
>
>    - title can be found at:
>       /x:xmpmeta/rdf:RDF/rdf:Description/dc:title/...
>
>
> Do your jpg files contain XMP-Data? Have a look at them with
> some hex editor and look for something starting with:
> "<x:xmpmeta".
>
>
> My setup:
>    - Gentoo Linux
>    - KDE 4.8.5
>    - DigiKam 2.9.0
>
> Regards,
> 	Peter
>
> On 10.10.2012 20:48, Markus Ebert wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> After tagging and commenting my photos and trying to share
>> them with others (windows users), I found out that digikam
>> did not actually save my comments to the files, neither to
>> the jpg nor to xmp.
>> I crosschecked by using exiftool and even deleting the
>> database-file: digikam was able to restore the tags, but not
>> the comments.
>> All options in "Write this information to the Metadata" are
>> set, I also checked the digikamrc (see below).
>>
>> I am using digikam 2.9 on a SUSE 12.2 running KDE 4.9.2.
>>
>> Apart from the problem above, what is your opinion on how to
>> organize photos on multiple platforms?
>>
>>
>> Kind regards
>> Markus
>>
>>
>> Contents of digikamrc:
>> ...
>> [Metadata Settings]
>> EXIF Rotate=true
>> EXIF Set Orientation=true
>> Metadata Writing Mode=2
>> Rotate By Internal Flag=true
>> Rotate By Metadata Flag=true
>> Rotate Contents Lossless=true
>> Rotate Contents Lossy=false
>> Save Color Label=true
>> Save Date Time=true
>> Save EXIF Comments=true
>> Save Pick Label=true
>> Save Rating=true
>> Save Tags=true
>> Save Template=true
>> Update File Timestamp=false
>> Use XMP Sidecar For Reading=true
>> Write RAW Files=false
>> ...
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