Re: Photoscripting IPTC captions
Re: Photoscripting IPTC captions
- Subject: Re: Photoscripting IPTC captions
- From: Ed Stockly <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 11:52:22 -0700
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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.
I have scripts that will read IPTC headers from PhotoShop with photoScripter
and Graphic Converter. I'd be happy to pass them on to anyone interested.
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>>Currently in progress, my script will hopefully be able to batch process
files, reading IPTC data directly from the file's resource fork, so you
don't actually have to "open" the files at all... Please let me know if
anybody is interested in my venture, and may be able to give advice on how
to best use - or bypass - several OSAXen.
Well, the immediate problem is that there are a wide variety of image file
formats and, I believe, each uses different methods for sorting the headers.
For example I don't believe JPEGS GIFS or EPS use a resource fork to store
the headers.
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>>>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)
I've found the most reliable method to use PhotoScripter. Also Main Event
has a fairly responsive support list that can provide answers to most
PhotoScripter questions.
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>>> Graphics Converter is reliable and light when you decide that you would
want to wait for files to open....
I've noticed a problem with Graphics Converter where IPTC headers are lost
if the file is of certain types or if it's opened from a script command
rather than a user opening the file.
ES