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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