[digiKam-users] From Windows Comments field to digiKam Captions

[Gilles Caulier]

Hi Maik,

Do we need to deal with XPComments as with will need to do with XPKeywords
in the future ?

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=421464

Gilles

Le lun. 7 mars 2022 à 19:10, Maik Qualmann <metzpinguin at gmail.com> a écrit :

> Thanks for the sample image. OK, reading the Exif.XPComment is indeed not
> possible at the moment. Reading exif comments are still hard coded and
> bypass
> advanced metadata settings.
> I will fix it .
>
> Maik
>
> Am Montag, 7. März 2022, 08:37:42 CET schrieben Sie:
> > Send me a sample image with a Windows comment.
> >
> > Maik
> >
> > Am Sonntag, 6. März 2022, 23:58:40 CET schrieb Rob Wallach:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Using digiKam 7.6.0 and trying to get the Windows "Comments" field of a
> > > JPG
> > > read as the digiKam "Captions" field.  Using a test photo not
> previously
> > > manipulated by digiKam and having a simple phrase in the "Comments"
> field
> > > as seen by Windows, in digiKam Metadata the only place where I can see
> > > this
> > > phrase is in under EXIF "XPComment" of the ExifTool tab.  It is also
> > > visible as "Windows Comment" under the EXIF tab.  So I went to
> > > Settings->Configure digiKam->Metadata->Advanced and under "Caption" I
> > > tried
> > > adding a new read namespace.  I tried Exif.XPComment and
> > > Exif.Image.XPComment but my Windows "Comments" never appears in digiKam
> > > "Captions".  I tried disabling all other read namespaces but to no
> avail.
> > > No matter what I do, any "Comments" entered in Windows is not read by
> > > digiKam.  And yes I have re-read the photo metadata (I changed the
> Windows
> > > "Comments" phrase and I see it in the ExifTool XPComment field from
> within
> > > digiKam).
> > >
> > > Any suggestions?  Thanks!
> > >
> > > Rob W.
>
>
>
>
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