Re: [KimDaBa] Anyone converted a PhotoShop Elements 3 database to Kimdaba?

[Stephen J. Gowdy]

I had a look through the various options and couldn't see a way of
exporting what I wanted (the map from tags to photos, or visa versa). It
does allow you to export the value of tags in an XML format (but not which
photos they are associated with). That xml file does seem to include the
thumbnail used for the tag. The format is like (i've replaced the icon
ascii stream with ...);

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<tagset>
<tagset-item>

<tagset-item-value-category-flag>1</tagset-item-value-category-flag>

<tagset-item-value-container-flag>1</tagset-item-value-container-flag>

<tagset-item-value-name><![CDATA[People]]></tagset-item-value-name>
        <tagset-item-value-icon><![CDATA[...]]></tagset-item-value-icon>

<tagset-item-value-frame-color><![CDATA[f4b955]]></tagset-item-value-frame-color>
        <tagset-item>

<tagset-item-value-container-flag>1</tagset-item-value-container-flag>

<tagset-item-value-name><![CDATA[Animals]]></tagset-item-value-name>
                <tagset-item>

<tagset-item-value-container-flag>0</tagset-item-value-container-flag>

<tagset-item-value-name><![CDATA[Cat]]></tagset-item-value-name>

<tagset-item-value-icon><![CDATA[...]]></tagset-item-value-icon>
                </tagset-item>
                <tagset-item>

<tagset-item-value-container-flag>1</tagset-item-value-container-flag>

<tagset-item-value-name><![CDATA[One Side]]></tagset-item-value-name>
                        <tagset-item>

<tagset-item-value-container-flag>0</tagset-item-value-container-flag>

<tagset-item-value-name><![CDATA[Item on one side]]></tagset-item-value-name>

<tagset-item-value-icon><![CDATA[...]]></tagset-item-value-icon>
                        </tagset-item>
                </tagset-item>
        </tagset-item>
</tagset-item>
</tagset>

I guess I'll try disecting the .psa catolgue file. Hmm, the first page of
it contains "Standard Jet DB", so I should try to get M$ Access to open
it and see what happens...

On Sun, 21 Aug 2005, Dominik Stadler wrote:

> >         I've been using photoshop elements for some time but Kimdaba looks
> > very much like what I'd like to use on Linux. Before I start trying to
> > figure out if this is possible, has anyone done it? I had a look through
> > the last few months of posts (is there a searchable index anywhere?) and
> > couldn't see anything relevant and google didn't help.
>
> Just some notes from a non-Photoshop-user:
>
> Kimdaba uses an XML-Format for storing all the information, so you will need
> to somehow convert the information from the format that the
> Elements-Software uses into the XML-Format of Kimdaba.
>
> Do you have any information about how the information is stored in Photoshop
> Elements? Or is there some "Export" functionality?
>
> Dominik.
>
>

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