Thanks. This looks promising.
As soon as I can, I'll do the exercise I mentioned in a previous post to verify
the behaviour of the different software. There is something inconsistent between
apps in dealing with ITPC info, and it will help to have that documented before
trying to make the mods to display the info.
I'd also thought of writing a little script to offer a menu of files (probably
in Perl, given I know how to code in that) then read the comments via rdjpgcom
and display the image with e.g., feh.
This and geeqie might not be either/or, since a very quick browser app could
be helpful, while geeqie offers many features.
Will post when I have more information.
JN
On 2017-04-20 11:48 PM, Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
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.
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