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Martin Javorek

How to prevent digiKam NOT to write anything into IPTC

Hi all,

regarding my previsous comment about migrating from win environment to linux digiKam - is there a way how to force digiKam NOT to work with IPTC? Especially not to write anything into IPTC?

If I have photos without IPTC (only XMP) and I need to have these photos also without IPTC after editing metadata in digiKam - is there any way how to do it? I cannot find any option whether digiKam should write IPTC.

Thanks a lot,
Martin
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Gilles Caulier-4

Re: How to prevent digiKam NOT to write anything into IPTC

To forget only IPTC... no. You can only set digiKam to not write
anything in metadata, including Exif, Iptc, Xmp and Makernote. But
metadata manager is limited.

Look in setup/metadata page for details.

Gilles Caulier

2011/3/3 Martin Javorek <[hidden email]>:

> Hi all,
>
> regarding my previsous comment about migrating from win environment to linux digiKam - is there a way how to force digiKam NOT to work with IPTC? Especially not to write anything into IPTC?
>
> If I have photos without IPTC (only XMP) and I need to have these photos also without IPTC after editing metadata in digiKam - is there any way how to do it? I cannot find any option whether digiKam should write IPTC.
>
> Thanks a lot,
> Martin
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Martin Javorek

Re: How to prevent digiKam NOT to write anything into IPTC

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That's not a good message for me. It looks that digiKam is only for english speaking users, isn't it?

If I put a national characters into caption, it is properly written into XMP (UTF-8), but digiKam writes also IPTC and as it doesn't support (and will not: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=132244) UTF-8 IPTC, it writes mostly only '?' characters (instead of national ones). If I open the photo with another software, it always primary takes metadata from IPTC (if exists) and my IPTC is broken by digiKam. So it would be nice if digiKam give me a possibility not to write IPTC, if it cannot handle it with national characters.

Is there any other way how to enter national characters into metadata in digiKam? Am I missing someting?

Thanks a lot,
Martin

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Subject: [Digikam-users] Re: How to prevent digiKam NOT to write anything into IPTC

To forget only IPTC... no. You can only set digiKam to not write
anything in metadata, including Exif, Iptc, Xmp and Makernote. But
metadata manager is limited.

Look in setup/metadata page for details.

Gilles Caulier

2011/3/3 Martin Javorek <[hidden email]>:

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Michael G. Hansen

Re: How to prevent digiKam NOT to write anything into IPTC

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On 03/03/2011 07:43 PM, Gilles Caulier wrote:
> To forget only IPTC... no. You can only set digiKam to not write
> anything in metadata, including Exif, Iptc, Xmp and Makernote. But
> metadata manager is limited.

But wasn't there an option in an older version, where you were able to
specify which of XMP/IPTC/EXIF to write to?

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Gilles Caulier-4

Re: How to prevent digiKam NOT to write anything into IPTC

2011/3/3 Michael G. Hansen <[hidden email]>:
> On 03/03/2011 07:43 PM, Gilles Caulier wrote:
>> To forget only IPTC... no. You can only set digiKam to not write
>> anything in metadata, including Exif, Iptc, Xmp and Makernote. But
>> metadata manager is limited.
>
> But wasn't there an option in an older version, where you were able to
> specify which of XMP/IPTC/EXIF to write to?

Not really. Excepted some specific tag, as orientation located in
Exif, all information are registered at more than one metadata
container.

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Milan Knížek

Re: How to prevent digiKam NOT to write anything into IPTC

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Martin Javorek píše v Čt 03. 03. 2011 v 16:43 +0100:
> Hi all,

Hello Martin,

> If I have photos without IPTC (only XMP) and I need to have these
> photos also without IPTC after editing metadata in digiKam - is there
> any way how to do it? I cannot find any option whether digiKam should
> write IPTC.
>
If you are interested in removal of IPTC data, you could create a simple
bash script with exiftool or exiv2 commands and associate it with the
image file types. Then right-click / Open with ... / your_script would
do the trick. The script could also automatically start the other
software with the image name as parameter.

However, if you often switch between digiKam and the other software or
if the other software works with collections (albums), this would
probably prove as burdensome...

P.S. Do not forget, that if you change the metadata in the image with
the other software, then you need to re-read metadata from image in
digiKam to update the database.

regards,
Milan
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