Re: Photoscripting IPTC captions.
Re: Photoscripting IPTC captions.
- Subject: Re: Photoscripting IPTC captions.
- From: "Mohamed Shams" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 03:37:12 -0400
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My Ambitious-Scripting-Project-for-2001 is to write a script that
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will do exactly that, and more. Currently in progress, my script will
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hopefully be able to batch process files, reading IPTC data directly
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from the file's resource fork, so you don't actually have to "open"
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the files at all... Please let me know if anybody is interested in my
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venture, and may be able to give advice on how to best use - or
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bypass - several OSAXen.
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Pier
Definitely one of my interests (for like a zillion reasons at the photo
agency where I work)... I've found (Extract AP photo header [OSAX...]) to
be the lightest quickest scriptable method... however, it may fail too often
to be practical if you deal with a lot of files comming in from various
sources (like PC for example)
Graphics Converter is reliable and light when you decide that you would want
to wait for files to open.... A less scriptable way to do it if you've
got lots of them is to open up a folder (possibly with subfolders) in
Fotostation and export the IPTC records into a commadelimited text file
which is easily importable everywhere..
Cumulus (image database) will read the info fields of many kinds of media
files, and is highly scriptable and very well documented.... and you can
export text records very easily..
Mohamed
PS... I wish the PC was this easy