Re: [Gimp-developer] MWG composite functions & gexiv2

2015-04-04 Thread Alan Pater
The good news is that exiv2 already handles some of these conversions! See here for the details: http://dev.exiv2.org/issues/1050 The bad news is that I still haven't developed the coding skills to do all the necessary conversions. Help ___ gimp-de

Re: [Gimp-developer] MWG composite functions & gexiv2

2015-04-01 Thread Alan Pater
> Apologies. Let's try without attachments! As a picture is worth a thousand words, I built a mockup based on the GIMP metadata editor. The Exif tab has been left alone as a lot of that data comes straight from the camera. The XMP and IPTC tabs have been merged and separated into tabs called: Who,

Re: [Gimp-developer] MWG composite functions & gexiv2

2015-03-31 Thread Alan Pater
Apologies. Let's try without attachments! As a picture is worth a thousand words, I built a mockup based on the GIMP metadata editor. The Exif tab has been left alone as a lot of that data comes straight from the camera. The XMP and IPTC tabs have been merged and separated into tabs called: Who, W

Re: [Gimp-developer] MWG composite functions & gexiv2

2015-03-31 Thread Michael Schumacher
On 03/31/2015 10:13 PM, Alan Pater wrote: > As a picture is worth a thousand words, And would go to about 1000 subscribers. The list converts messages to plain text and drops attachments. Please upload your image somewhere and provide the URL Thanks. -- Regards, Michael GPG: 96A8 B38A 728A

Re: [Gimp-developer] MWG composite functions & gexiv2

2015-03-31 Thread Alan Pater
As a picture is worth a thousand words, I built a mockup based on the GIMP metadata editor. The Exif tab has been left alone as a lot of that data comes straight from the camera. The XMP and IPTC tabs have been merged and separated into tabs called: Who, What, Where, When according to Metadata Work

Re: [Gimp-developer] MWG composite functions & gexiv2

2015-03-27 Thread Alan Pater
On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 12:41 AM, Alan Pater wrote: > I have been talking with Jim Nelson about adding composite functions > to gexiv2. These would be based on Metadata Working Group guidelines > with the addition of a couple of commonly-requested formats. > >https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bu

Re: [Gimp-developer] MWG composite functions & gexiv2

2015-03-24 Thread Alan Pater
A few more details on this project. By including MWG guidelines at the shared library level, current and future applications can all benefit and don't have to reinvent the wheel. I guess what I am looking for is a mentor to guide me through the code and provide a coding basis for some of the conve

Re: [Gimp-developer] MWG composite functions & gexiv2

2015-03-20 Thread Alan Pater
I have gone ahead with the first patch of the series, adding the xmp.dc.description property to the get_comment function in gexiv2. Comments and testers are very welcome. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=746424 On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 12:41 AM, Alan Pater wrote: > I have been talk

[Gimp-developer] MWG composite functions & gexiv2

2015-03-19 Thread Alan Pater
I have been talking with Jim Nelson about adding composite functions to gexiv2. These would be based on Metadata Working Group guidelines with the addition of a couple of commonly-requested formats. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=712429 I can do a lot of the grunt work and testing,