Re: Added handling of IPTC People, Location and Headline fields.

["Dotan Cohen" <dotancohen gmail com>]

On 17/09/06, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen gmail com> wrote:
> On 17/09/06, Bengt Thuree <bengt thuree com> wrote:
> > Hi Guys,
> >
> > I created a new small bug #356387 [1] with patch [2] for the following
> > problem.
> >
> >
> > F-Spot do not look for the following tags in IPTC for the moment.
> >
> > Contact                  = Record.Application | 118, - People
> > ContentLocationName      = Record.Application | 27 - Location
> > Headline                 = Record.Application | 105,
> >
> > I created a small patch (that also includes the fix for bug #356330 [3]) to import these
> > extra tags/fields.
> > One problem though, is that if these tags ALSO exists as XMP data, they will be
> > duplicated.
> >
> > The patch will map these IPTC fields to
> > photoshop:Headline
> > mediapro:People
> > Iptc4xmpCore:Location
> >
> > There is no check for if these tags already exists as XMP tags.
> >
> > It imports the tags in Dotans test photos nicely, apart from the headline since F-Spot do not import any headline for the moment.
> > My iViewMedia Pro test photos gets duplicated XMP tags (People, Location, etc) due to they already existed.
> >
> > Comments? Testers?
> >
> > /Bengt
> >
> > [1] : http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=356387
> > [2] : http://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=72935&action=view
> > [3] : http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=356330
> >
> >
>
> I'll be testing this very soon...
>
> Dotan

Bengt,
I finally compiled and ran this patch- it works great. All our data
was imported. However, the tags are not converted to XMP even though I
have the appropriate option checked in the Preferences. So I figured
that if I drag and drop the tags to new top-level tags, the
information would be re-written as XMP data, but not so. What can I do
to have F-Spot convert the data to XMP? Because I'm not certain that
this patch will continue working on future versions of F-Spot, and I'd
like to have all my data in one format (ie, XMP).

Thanks.

Dotan Cohen