Re: Importing IPTC tags

[Frederic Peters <fpeters 0d be>]

Hi Bengt,

> I think my XMP import patch (which is based on Gabriels GThumb tags
> import) could be a good start. But not sure F-Spot reads/finds the various
> IPTC tags though.

F-Spot already displays country, city and keywords (as "Subject and
Keywords") in the metadata browser.

>                    There was a link to a C# library to read IPTC tags on
> the mailing list a year ago or more.
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/f-spot-list/2005-April/msg00014.html

I had a quick a look at this, it works but some files had suspect
copyright notices and I didn't go further.


> Not sure we should use his library, or try to get an IPTC class reader for
> f-spot.

IptcFile.cs may be enough.  I'll look into all of this next week.



        Frederic