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[Ids-devel] ids patch for EXIF Orientation

[Stephen J. G. <go...@sl...>]

Hi Duncan (or someone else on the list),
	Do you still have that patch you posted? The archive has it messed
it. I just got a Canon 20D which uses this and I'd like IDS to obey it.

						regards,

						Stephen.

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Re: [Ids-devel] ids patch for EXIF Orientation

[Nick P. <nw...@nz...>]

Ooh. Activity! I was just starting to think that nothing ever happened here.

How much development is going on? I notice that 0.83b2 seems to have been
around for a very long time with no further release.

Just wondering whether anyone has any plans for a release, as I've been
doing a bit of cleaning up here (working better with TIFF images, handling
UTF8 filenames etc.).  If any other development actually *is* happening,
I'll be a little more careful about keeping track of my changes...


Cheers,


Nick

Re: [Ids-devel] ids patch for EXIF Orientation

[Stephen J. G. <go...@sl...>]

BTW, thanks for the hint. The patch (or somethign that does the same) is
in 0.83b2.

On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, Nick Phillips wrote:

> Ooh. Activity! I was just starting to think that nothing ever happened here.
>
> How much development is going on? I notice that 0.83b2 seems to have been
> around for a very long time with no further release.
>
> Just wondering whether anyone has any plans for a release, as I've been
> doing a bit of cleaning up here (working better with TIFF images, handling
> UTF8 filenames etc.).  If any other development actually *is* happening,
> I'll be a little more careful about keeping track of my changes...
>
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> Nick
>
>
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[Ids-devel] What's an IPTC? And IDS status?

[Ajay <li...@he...>]

Hey guys!

	First a quick question (Sorry I'm too busy/distracted to try to
figure it out):
How hard would it be to get IDS to display the EXIF Comment in an image?  I
assume that's easy, so here's the possibly harder question.

What's the IPTC?  It sounds like it's separate from the EXIF, how hard would
it be to add support for that to IDS?

As far as Nick's post goes, I'd love to see a new release of IDS.  Who are
the maintainer(s) of the source, has s/he been too busy, or just stopped
work, and maybe somebody else can take it over?

There are many people that have made a lot of great patches to the source on
their own sites, it'd be a pity if that all went to waste, imho!

	Would it be much harder to track your changes?  Maybe we could get
ids into a cvs, that might aid dev...

looking forward to a response, thanks for everything guys!!  GREAT
SOFTWARE!!  "I'm lovin it.." :)  I just imported all my 2005 pictures,
renamed and all (jhead's a great tool!).  ta!

	-Ajay

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Re: [Ids-devel] What's an IPTC? And IDS status?

[Anthony D'A. <aa...@ve...>]

> How hard would it be to get IDS to display the EXIF Comment in an 
> image?

It already tries, but I've found that the Image::Info code that it uses 
fails
often, especially if there are multiple comments/comment lines eg.
of the sort that wrjpgcom seems to insert for me. Heck, it doesn't
even always return the same data type!   I gave up trying to make it 
work and
replaced the call with an invocation of rdjpgcom.  Spawning the seperate
process makes IDS even slower, but at least it works reliably.

What I'm running is mostly .81, I think, because I've been too lazy
to figure out diffs and hack the .82 stuff in.  I tried the popular
PHP-based "Gallery", and while it was indeed fast, it was very complex
and clearly geared toward people submitting a few occasional pictures
of the kids via a web interface.  One thing I like about IDS is that I
just slap the images into a directory hierarchy -- which I was doing 
anyway --
and it takes care of the rest without me jumping through interface
hoops or having to insert photos into an opaque database.  I can
rearrange at will and IDS Just Works, though I do occasionally wipe the
cache to clean up orphaned scaled copies.

> SOFTWARE!!  "I'm lovin it.." :)  I just imported all my 2005 pictures,
> renamed and all (jhead's a great tool!).  ta!

Absolutely.  I use it via Jason Paul's 'rotate' script all the time to
do lossless rotation on pics from my old camera that didn't have
an orientation sensor.

Re: [Ids-devel] What's an IPTC? And IDS status?

[Ajay <li...@he...>]

Hey guys!

* Anthony D'Atri <aa...@ve...> [050316 00:32], about 
> Re: [Ids-devel] What's an IPTC?  And IDS status?:
> 
> >How hard would it be to get IDS to display the EXIF Comment in an 
> >image?
> 
> It already tries, but I've found that the Image::Info code that it uses 
> fails
> often, especially if there are multiple comments/comment lines eg.

	That's too bad.  I'm running .83b2 (I was using timduru's tim3
before that), but I'd be interested in seeing your patch to see how hard it
is to integrate.  I'm not too worried about speed, I think it'll be fine.
Hmm.. I guess it does need to read it everytime, huh?  Would there be a good
place to store it, other than the album-data dir?  Maybe that'd be the
better option, just extract it and keep it as the comment, rather than
hacking ids.. hmm..

	What about IPTC though, any ideas on using/seeing those, any tools
available?

	Good point on gallery, it does seem like it might be a little
unwieldy, definitely works better for random people submitting pictures
randomly.  That's the only part of IDS I don't like (can't let people have
admin access to just some of my pictures, or uploading/etc), but I can live
with that.  :)
The directory hierarchy feature of IDS is sweet, no doubt.  That's pretty
much how I've always kept my pictures anyways, so it's hecka easy.  :)
Yeah, I occassionally wipe image-cache too, especially since I prefer to
rename via the cmd line since it's soo much faster.  Hmm, I guess that might
be my new plan then, rename and comment at the cl, and then export to
album-data.. that's crazy enough that it might just work.. :)

Even though I've never used a database, I know I'd be crazy if I had to use
one for all this stuff.. :)

I missed what you used via this "rotate" script Anthony, it seems like jhead
and ids both use jpegtran to rotate?

	sorry I'm ramblin a bit, it's sleepytime.. :)  ta!

	-Ajay

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