Automatically saving categories into IPTC tag
Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2014 5:29 pm
I'm looking for a solution for my company that would allow us to maintain a database of tagged images. XnView MP seems to have a very convenient UI to select the tags (categories), but I couldn't figure out how to set it up so that the category information is automatically saved as an IPTC tag.
By checking the Metadata/IPTC&XMP/"Export DB category to XMP subject and IPTC keyword" toggle, it seems like categories are saved as XMP tags, but not as IPTC data. Unfortunately for long-term compatibility XMP is not acceptable, because even XnView can't interpret this format, let alone other image management software.
Did I overlook some hidden setting that would enable this functionality? I hope that is the case, because the other alternative is to keep using digiKam, which is violently unstable
By checking the Metadata/IPTC&XMP/"Export DB category to XMP subject and IPTC keyword" toggle, it seems like categories are saved as XMP tags, but not as IPTC data. Unfortunately for long-term compatibility XMP is not acceptable, because even XnView can't interpret this format, let alone other image management software.
Did I overlook some hidden setting that would enable this functionality? I hope that is the case, because the other alternative is to keep using digiKam, which is violently unstable