problem with legend

[Frédéric Chaume]

this is exactly what I was looking for. great thanks !8-)
much easier when using the right menu ;-)
still lot to learn

thanks for your help


Le 03/11/2016 à 11:56, Remco Viëtor a écrit :
> On mercredi 2 novembre 2016 19:09:47 CET Frédéric Chaume wrote:
>> Hi all
>>
>> I'm a new comer on digikam , previously using Picasa , but as I migrated
>> to Linux and Picasa has been roll out, I searched for another powerfull
>> tools including people identification and geotaging.
>> So I installed digikam 5.2.0 and imported my pictures. Great !
>>
>> One problem I have is about legend or caption.
>> fot the pictures updated with a comment outside digikam, noi porblem, I
>> can see the legend in the thumbnails
>> but when I want to add another one from Digikam, It doesn't work. I
>> tried different field (caption, title,...) from metadata edition tools
>> but nothing happened, when I look at the thumbnail view, the comment is
>> not visible. And at the end when I edit the metadata again, the comment
>> I've made has disappeared
>> I'm sure I missed something, but what ?
>>
>> thanks in advance for your help
> Have you tried adding caption and title through the fields in the right
> column, "captions" tab (and _not_ the metadata tab).
>
> There are at least 3 places in the metadata where a comment can be stored, and
> they all have different requirements:
> - EXIF (ASCII only (?), limited lenght)
> - ICMP (8-bit chars, limited length)
> - XMP (utf-8, in theory unlimited length).
> I prefer letting Digikam figure out where to store my titles and captions, and
> to use the simplest possible interface. The "captions" tab provides that:
> you can enter  comment/caption, title, rating, color flags, tags/keywords
> without worrying how and where it will be stored in the database or files.
>
> If you want to use titles and captions from outside Digikam, writing those to
> the image or sidecar files might be useful. See under "settings -> configure
> digikam", "Metadata" tab. Do be careful _not_ to select the option "If
> possible, write Metadata to RAW files (Experimental)".
> Even if it were not marked as experimental, that's just a very bad idea
> (imho): any error in writing metadata to the RAW file can make the file
> unusable, and as the RAW file is the original data...
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