[KPhotoAlbum] Another howto question

[Joe]

On 01/11/2012 04:09 PM, Benny Simonsen wrote:
> 2012/1/11 Joe <josephj at main.nc.us <mailto:josephj at main.nc.us>>
>
>     Since my last howto question seemed to stir things up to good
>     effect, I'll ask another.
>
>     My partner just selected around 1700 photos of hers to review and
>     possibly print (a subset!).  I put them on a flash drive.  She's
>     going to do the final review at the photo center.
>
>     That's all fine, but I want to tag the ones she actually prints as
>     "printed".  *If* the photo center gave me a file listing which
>     photos were printed, is there any way I could use it to set a KPA
>     tag? Could I write a bash script to set the tags inside KPA?
>      (Right now, bash is the only language I'm fluent in.  I've
>     programmed in quite a few others, but not for quite some time.  I
>     do know a bit of C.)  I think I saw a post some time ago about
>     setting tags from "outside" KPA.
>
>     Has anyone had to deal with a similar situation?
>
>     The prints do come back with the file name printed on the back,
>     but it's very light and hard to read and I don't relish going
>     through them one by one by hand.
>
>     TIA
>
> I don't know about there are made things for that without directly
> updating the database (default plain text XML file), but I will
> reccomment you to change the flow to let her select which photos to
> print in KPhotoAlbum.
>
> I normally use a flow like this when printing photos:
> 1: View photos, hit "p" for photos I would like to print (I use tokens
> for temporary fast marking - normally I have no tokens attached to my
> pictures)
> 2: Select all photos with symbol "p" and apply a keyword like
> PhotoCenter-2012.01.01 and remove "p"
> 3: Iterate 1-2
> 4: Send the pictures to PhotoCenter
>
> /Benny
>
I know, but ... I can only recommend ;)