How can I get missing EXIF fields added to gallery.xml?

[Gilles Caulier]

Hi,

See this bugzilla report : https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=147768

Best regards

Gilles Caulier

Le lun. 3 févr. 2025 à 15:00, Roger Parkinson <roger.parkinson35 at gmail.com>
a écrit :

> Hi there,
>
>
> I've just started using Digikam to try to generate an HTML gallery for my
> photos. It mostly works the way I want but not quite and my problem is in
> the EXIF data. I have lots of photos scanned from hard copies and old
> slides. All my photos have the Title and ImageDescription fields as well as
> the Date/Time Original field filled in with a year. These are mostly
> historical photos and the year is all I have.
>
> When I run exiftool I see this (shortened for clarity):
>
>
> ExifTool Version Number : 12.76
>
> File Name : Scanned Document2.jpg
>
> Directory : .
>
> File Size : 336 kB
>
> File Type : JPEG
>
> File Type Extension : jpg
>
> MIME Type : image/jpeg
>
> JFIF Version : 1.01
>
> Exif Byte Order : Big-endian (Motorola, MM)
>
> Image Description : Very vague date
>
> Title : Mary Ann Parkinson nee Cole, Bristol, England
>
> Date/Time Original : 1860
>
>
> You can see the Title, Image Description and Date/Time Original showing up
> there just fine.
>
> When I look at the photos in Digikam it shows me the Title and
> ImageDescription just fine like this
>
>
> [image: image.png]
>
> I'm not seeing the Date/Time Original but it's promising. However when I
> create an HTML Gallery it adds the image description but not the title. I'm
> using the classic theme so far and Image Description shows up as a tool
> tip. But Title does not appear.
>
> I dug a little deeper and looked at the gallery.xml file which is the
> extract the theme xsl files use. The snippet for the image referred to
> above in the exif data (again shortened for clarity) looks like this:
>
> <image>
>
> <title>Scanned Document2.jpg</title>
>
> <description>The date is a guess</description>
>
> <date>2024-06-01T12:00:38</date>
>
> <full fileName="scanned_document2_jpg.jpeg" height="1024" width="743"/>
>
> <thumbnail fileName="thumb_scanned_document2_jpg.jpeg" height="120"
> width="120"/>
>
> <exif>
>
> <exifimagemake>unavailable</exifimagemake>
>
> <exifimagemodel>unavailable</exifimagemodel>
>
> <exifimageorientation>unavailable</exifimageorientation>
>
> <exifgpsaltitude>unavailable</exifgpsaltitude>
>
> ...
>
> </exif>
>
> </image>
>
>
> The description field has the Image Description but there is no sign of my
> Title (except for that tag which has the file name) nor the Date/Time
> Original.
>
> I have looked at Settings>Configuration>Metadata>Advanced which seemed
> promising but no changes I made there had any effect on the contents of the
> gallery.xml file (or anything else as far as I could see).
>
> So my question is: How can I get those two missing EXIF fields added to
> gallery.xml somehow?
>
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
>
> --
> *Roger Parkinson*
>
> <http://www.roger-parkinson.com/>
>
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