#16 IPTC support

[Anonymous]

Certain image files such as JPEG can contain International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC) metadata. Those are used by Flickr to determine tags, the photo title and the caption. This is great for people that are already using IPTC to describe and categorize their photos (like me).

However, KFlickr doesn't have IPTC support, and Flickr does nothing with the embedded IPTC info when an image is uploaded through KFlickr.

Hereby I request IPTC support in KFlickr, so that the title, caption and tags are loaded from the IPTC tags.

libexiv2 is a library that can read and write both EXIF and IPTC metadata. libiptcdata is a similar library, but only for IPTC metadata.

[Sybren A. Stüvel]

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I posted this feature request.

[TundraMan]

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Hi,

I think this is a great suggestion and will keep it around for a future release. My time is currently being spent getting a version of kflickr ready for KDE4 so please be patient as I have had and will continue to have limited time to spend on KFlickr. Right now I am doing my own EXIF handling but I do intend to start to use an EXIF lib to be able to implement more advanced features.

Thanks for your submission,
Mark

[Sybren A. Stüvel]

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I'm working on a limited clone of KFlickr that's written in Python using the Qt4 widget toolkit. It wraps around the libiptcdata library for getting the IPTC data from JPEG files. It isn't in a releasable state (yet), but if you're interested in the code I'll gladly send you a beta.

[Sybren A. Stüvel]

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Just FYI: my KFlickr clone will probably never be released. I'm not much of a C++ programmer, so it was faster to create my own IPTC-parsing flickr uploader than to include IPTC support in KFlickr. Most likely I'll move back to kflickr once it supports IPTC ;-)

[John]

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I too would like to see this implemented. As it is, if I have IPTC data in the photos, kflickr seems to strip off ALL of the EXIF data by the time it hit's Flickr's site.