On 2017-04-20 17:53, J C Nash wrote: > I've been trying a number of viewers (more than I care to name!). > > It seems that mapivi and the libjpeg-progs (rdjpgcom and wrjpgcom) > put the "comment" somewhere different from geeqie and pix and .... Along with Diane, I'd have to put in a good word for geeqie. I started with gqview (from which geeqie was forked) and while the switchover to geeqie was a bit difficult due to learning curve and muscle memory, I have been pretty happy with it. It is quite customizable. In particular, under "Edit"->"Preferences"->"Windows"->"Overlay Screen Display" you can customize the Image Overlay Template to list any information you want. Since it is possible to add EXIF information as I have done for exif.photo.datetimeoriginal: %Exif.Photo.DateTimeOriginal% it should be possible to add something similar for IPTC fields. If you figure out a recipe, I'd be interested to add it to my overlay template and potentially start using IPTC fields myself. Also, adding a hotkey to geeqie to be able to easily edit IPTC fields would be a nice touch. I've already added keyboard shortcut customizations to invoke ufraw, gimp, rotations, pushing batches of images to my next stage of processing, etc... You can enable/disable the overlay with "i" while viewing an image. "j" changes overlay histogram log/linear. "k" changes overlay histogram all/r/g/b/black. It may even be possible to get the IPTC field text added to the bottom status bar along with the file selection stats, image stats, pixel RGB values and co-ordiate stats, zoom, etc. > Gimp and Irfanview are happy to show the comments I put in, but the > interface isn't set up for browsing the image + comments quickly. > > In the next few days I'll try to set up a little review and > put it on the oclug wiki to provide a focus. Otherwise one can get > a lot of unnecessary back and forth. In part it seems jpeg files > can have information in lots of different pockets, and different > software uses different locations. > > FWIW, I've found a number of review items on the net are rather > optimistic about the capabilities of some of the software. After I > installed some, I could not find some features claimed for some > apps. > > Best, JN > > > > On 2017-04-20 04:55 PM, Dianne Skoll wrote: > >On Thu, 20 Apr 2017 16:52:43 -0400 > >Dianne Skoll <dfs [ at ] roaringpenguin [ dot ] com> wrote: > > > >>Sure; geeqie. Packaged in Debian and source is at > >>http://geeqie.sourceforge.net/ > > > >*sigh*, make that http://geeqie.org/ > > > >Regards, > > > >Dianne. > >_______________________________________________ > >Linux mailing list > >Linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca > >http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux mailing list > Linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca > http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux slainte mhath, RGB -- Richard Guy Briggs -- ~\ -- ~\ <hpv.tricolour.ca> <www.TriColour.ca> -- \___ o \@ @ Ride yer bike! Ottawa, ON, CANADA -- Lo_>__M__\\/\%__\\/\% Vote! -- <greenparty.ca>_____GTVS6#790__(*)__(*)________(*)(*)_________________