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Is category information stored in the image file?
Posted: Sun May 10, 2009 11:30 am
by andrea.ippo
I should definitely use categories or some other sort of tagging my photo collection, since it's becoming so huge that hyerarchical organization becomes difficult to manage and not so effective as I'd like (one image can be only in one folder, but can have more categories assigned...)
So my question is:
since it would be a great effort for my to re-organize my photo collection, is the category solution really portable?
Are files that have been categorized in PC A also categorized in PC B (independently from the program I'm using)
Thank you
Re: Is category information stored in the image file?
Posted: Sun May 10, 2009 3:44 pm
by xnview
currently categories are stored in the xnview.db, not in the file
Re: Is category information stored in the image file?
Posted: Sun May 10, 2009 5:08 pm
by andrea.ippo
xnview wrote:currently categories are stored in the xnview.db, not in the file
That's a pity...
Is this going to be implemented?
Thanks
Re: Is category information stored in the image file?
Posted: Sun May 10, 2009 6:26 pm
by xnview
andrea.ippo wrote:xnview wrote:currently categories are stored in the xnview.db, not in the file
That's a pity...
Is this going to be implemented?
Currently i work on such function in XnViewMP (next release).
Re: Is category information stored in the image file?
Posted: Sun May 10, 2009 11:51 pm
by obelisk
was there a 'copy cat to file' being done for xnview too?
Re: Is category information stored in the image file?
Posted: Mon May 11, 2009 7:38 am
by andrea.ippo
xnview wrote:andrea.ippo wrote:xnview wrote:currently categories are stored in the xnview.db, not in the file
That's a pity...
Is this going to be implemented?
Currently i work on such function in XnViewMP (next release).
Waiting impatiently, thank you
PS: what about portability? Will this information be stored in a kind of standardized tags that (almost) every similar application can "understand" (like ID3 tags for mp3 files), or is this information going to be usable only within XnView? (which I don't plan to leave, but it can happen that I use other's PCs which have other imaging applications)
Re: Is category information stored in the image file?
Posted: Mon May 11, 2009 11:34 am
by xnview
andrea.ippo wrote:
PS: what about portability? Will this information be stored in a kind of standardized tags that (almost) every similar application can "understand" (like ID3 tags for mp3 files), or is this information going to be usable only within XnView? (which I don't plan to leave, but it can happen that I use other's PCs which have other imaging applications)
XnViewMP will store it in DB and in XMP/IPTC (file metadata)