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.