[digiKam-users] Confused by tick boxes in "Edit Metadata" + how does "Captions" interact?

[Chris Green]

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

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> >
> > There are also the three extra tick boxes which I assume are the ones
> > that copy metadata between Exif, IPTC and XMP.  However there is some
> > confusion here too (for me anyway!), what is JFIF?
> 
> JPEG segment used to store comment and more. Look in wikipedia.
> 
Ah, OK, thank you.

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG_File_Interchange_Format. This is not
> Exif.
> 
> And yes, photo file format are puzzle...
> 
Absolutely!  It's all a bit of a can of worms and I realise that
Digikam is doing its best to handle it all in a reasonable way.

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> >
> > What would also be really, really useful would be a listing of which
> > Exif, IPTC and XMP fields correspond to each field in the "Edit
> > Metadata" section as this would clear up any ambiguity between
> > "Comment", "Caption", "Description" and similar.  Either this or give
> > the actual field names in the "Edit Metadata", e.g. you could put
> >
> >
> In fact no. This tool try to simplify the complixity of reduntant metadat
> tags in files, something like the file properties in Photoshop.
> 
OK, but it would still be very useful to be able to find this
information.  I know some are described in detail in the
Metadata->Advanced tab in Settings but it would be good to know how
all are handled.  Maybe the section in Settings could be extended?

Anyway, thank you for your reply, I know this is a rather 'messy' area
in handling image files so there is no easy answer.


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Chris Green
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