Re: Importing photos with XMP info already in them.

["Bengt Thuree" <bengt thuree com>]

On Må, 2006-07-03, 09:31, Gabriel Burt skrev:
> On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 03:19 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>> I am trying to import some photos with XMP info (fspot-style) already

What do you mean F-Spot style?
F-Spot has stored the tags in the photo or?

Did you not before try to store the embedded IPTC tags in an external XMP
SideCar format, or?

>> embedded in them. Fspot is not recognising the tags. Will Fspot not
>> recognise tags created outside of itself?
>
> F-Spot does not currently import XMP tags.  Please see
>
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=342137
>
>> How could I embed the info in the photos such that fspot will
>> recognise it? Thanks in advance.
>
> There is no way to do it easily.  I wrote a patch to import 'keywords'
> from gThumb a while back, you could somehow get the XMP tags in that
> format and use that patch (which probably doesn't apply cleanly
> anymore).  CC yourself to the above bug to follow its progress.
>

Both patches on this bug now applies cleanly to Head.
Warrens patch will not work, since it demands the XMP information in a
sidecar. If you converted your IPTC tags to an external XMP sidecar file,
this patch works fine.
My patch might work since it can import F-Spot tags, as well as XMP tags
from IView MediaPro. Regarding importing XMP sidecar, it should work also.

/Bengt