Get summery of a jpeg file

2007-01-16 Thread Gallagher, Tim F \(NE\)
A friend asked me to write a program for a WIN32 OS. When this person's camera takes a picture it populates the file summery with information (right click on the file, go to the summary tab). One field that I need to get is called "Date Picture Taken". I then need to rename the pictures with s

Re: Get summery of a jpeg file

2007-01-16 Thread Lawrence Statton XE2/N1GAK
> > A friend asked me to write a program for a WIN32 OS. When this person's > camera takes a picture it populates the file summery with information > (right click on the file, go to the summary tab). One field that I need > to get is called "Date Picture Taken". I then need to rename the > pic

Re: Get summery of a jpeg file

2007-01-16 Thread Ovid
--- "Gallagher, Tim F (NE)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A friend asked me to write a program for a WIN32 OS. When this > person's > camera takes a picture it populates the file summery with information > (right click on the file, go to the summary tab). One field that I > need > to get is cal

Re: Get summery of a jpeg file

2007-01-16 Thread Omega -1911
Before you asked us, you CERTAINLY did a search of CPAN for JPEG and Info, right? How did Image::MetaData::JPEG fail to meet your needs? It's huge, it's complicated, and the documentation is hard to read, but Image Magick (which comes with perl bindings) can do anything with an image that can

Re: Get summery of a jpeg file

2007-01-16 Thread Lawrence Statton XE2/N1GAK
Omega 1911 wrote in part: >Did YOU assume that the OP knew about CPAN. I know when I had my first >interest in Perl, I had NO IDEA of who or what CPAN was, let alone that it >existed Since the OPs question included, "Is there a cpan module that can do this?" I think it is not unfair to assume

Re: Get summery of a jpeg file

2007-01-16 Thread Mumia W.
On 01/16/2007 10:18 PM, Lawrence Statton XE2/N1GAK wrote: Omega 1911 wrote in part: Did YOU assume that the OP knew about CPAN. I know when I had my first interest in Perl, I had NO IDEA of who or what CPAN was, let alone that it existed Since the OPs question included, "Is there a cpan mo

Re: Get summery of a jpeg file

2007-01-17 Thread Lawrence Statton XE2/N1GAK
tl.sa.earthlink.net with asmtp (Exim 4.34) > id 1H74wA-00041u-ME > for beginners@perl.org; Wed, 17 Jan 2007 02:10:23 -0500 > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 01:05:08 -0600 > From: "Mumia W." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > User-Agent