XnView Software

So you don't want to touch embedded metadata or sidecar, and be able to rate/tag image files, right?

yes, that would be great!

Pierre, many thanks!

I dont use the catalogue system, thats correct.

As far as the second information is concerned, i do not use the side car either, because this can be unreliable with different photo agencies, only IPTC is dead safe.

I thought the iptc standard information, being a metadata ...

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Where do you save the catalog Settings>Integration>Paths?
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here:

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once again, on a mac os 12.3 tagging/rating images/colour labbeling wont work. no matter how I try (marking with a mouse or a keyboard)

i cannot choose the best images form ...

You can only tag an image in fullscreen from browser, select an image file in browser, and View>Fullscreen

But how am I supposed to do this? I open an image in the full screen view and tagging doesn't work. Neither command+t nor space tab

Do you have changed Settings>Browser-Tag => Never?

Yes ...

Pierre,

on a M1 Mac, MacOS 12.3

1) I can tag an image only in the browser view, after that I can see the X in the info panel when viewing this image in the full screen view. I cannot tag an image while in the full screen view and later see the tagged images in the browser view. that won't work

2 ...

update, now I see I can tag images only the browser view (command+t). when I switch to image view, then there is an X in brackets indeed

but how can I tag, or mark, an image in the full screen view? I need to mark the images the other way round, first to see them big, and then go to the browser ...

Pierre,

1) I open the image (image view, full screen) and switch the information panel on, then try to tag an image (space bar, command+T) -> nothing happens, there is still no X mark inside the brackets


2.) nope, in the browser view I tag images with command+T, then go to an another folder, then ...

1) I am very sorry to see, that on my MacBook Pro, MacOs 12.3, XnView MPVersion 1.02 64bits (Aug 24 2022) Libformat version 7.114

tagging or rating pictures while in the image viewing mode (full screen mode) does not work at all!!

the information displayed, to find at settings/view/info, won't ...

in case smb would be interested, the solution was that


you should UNmark the "use the UTF-8 to write IPTC Fields" option, to find at settings/browser/metadata


Thanks Pierre of your help and fine work (and sorry for the late reply)!

p.s. I am asking because I don't know which properties do you mean, under Image/Properties there are a few properties options like IPTC, XMP, Exif ?

may be I could zip two images, one which is correct and one which supposedly not working, and upload them somewhere, only for You to checking?

many thanks in advance!

Pierre, it is enabled and I can see it. Nevertheless my agency, for whatever reason, cannot.

In the "old days", we used to caption our jpg first and the convert the captioned jpg with irfan view. It somehow put everything in place, I mean the meta data, so tan that all other software could read it

That's exactly the problem: I see the keywords locally on my M1 Mac, but my agency says there are none.

Pls. excuse me for mentioning some other software :-) but I am sure you know what I mean. Both this progs are expensive and miss some features XnviewMP offers, but on the other hand apparently ...

Hi there Everybody,

being in urgent need for clear, step by step, for dummies :-) instructions how to embed IPTC keywords to a jpg image. In the same way like Photo Mechanic or Fotostation do.

When I test uploaded my images to various photo agencies, the keywords got lost. All other IPTC fileds ...