XnView Software

Hi, Google Images has announced a forthcoming feature that connects their users with image creators in order to license images. (As opposed to stealing them. This should be greeted with great enthusiasm by photographers.)

The new feature is powered by two IPTC fields that XnView currently does not ...

Hello again. I just stumbled into my own thread from Google, so ...I'm bumping it.

I often recommend XnView, but always I feel required to add a qualification - XnView doesn't write, or for that matter read in in its IPTC editor, a number of fields that are part of the IPTC core schema. These would ...

Hi,

XnView doesn't write the contents of the IPTC Caption, Byline, and Copyright fields to their counterparts in the Exif. Thus, it's possible to write out-of-sync metadata with XnView, especially if values already existed in those Exif fields. (Certain uncivilized programs read from those Exif ...

If I'm understanding this correctly, XnView MP can read in the Info pane the extended IPTC fields (the ones that appear only in XMP) but we can't edit or write to them.

Would it be possible to add tabs for those fields in the Edit IPTC-IIM/XMP dialog?

This would help with compatiblity with other ...

oh.

Doh.

I didn't see the tab. When I searched, nothing relevant for MP returned. So, I'll prefer to think of this as "creating documentation", as opposed to just wasting your time

Thanks!

Carl

Is it possible to change the color label names in XnView MP?

I tried adding custom names (to match Adobe CC programs) in ~/.xnviewmp.xnview.ini, in the Browser section, like so:

ColorLabel-0=Red
ColorLabel-1=Yellow
ColorLabel-2=Green
ColorLabel-3=Blue
ColorLabel-4=Purple

But nothing happened in ...