[LUNI] Hello

[David Horton]

Tyler,

For a GUI tool, try this...

http://mapivi.sourceforge.net/mapivi.shtml

It looks like it can do what you want.

Dave


Tyler Stoffel wrote:
> Hi, not to show off my absolute lack of knowledge, but what is Perl and
> what
> is API? Do I need to know any code to use them, or can I GUI it? My
> experimentation with command prompt apps has bred nothing but frustration.
> 
> Tyler
> 
> On 2/10/07, Eric MacAdie <eric at macadie.net> wrote:
>>
>> I have done some rudimentary batch processing with PerlMagick, a perl
>> API for ImageMagick. The PerlMagick page says that it can add IPTC
>> profiles. Granted, ImageMagick is also available on Windows.
>>
>> Eric MacAdie
>>
>> Tyler Stoffel wrote:
>> > There are really two core functions missing from the Gimp, a) batch
>> > processing, which I never use anyway, but someone with a
>> > hundreds-of-photos-a-day workflow, ie a wedding shooter, would find it
>> > very
>> > useful; and b) an IPTC editor. IPTC is a text sidecar protocol that
>> > allows
>> > you to embed a caption into the jpeg. The Gimp has its own version of
>> > info
>> > embedding, but it is unable to be read by Photoshop, Photo Mechanic,
>> > and the
>> > other proprietary software used by the papers that buy my photos. But,
>> > according to the Gimp's home page, IPTC protocol embedding is in the
>> > works.
>> > As for now, some clients allow me to send the captions as .doc
>> > attachments,
>> > or in the body of an email (I email all my work to the buyers) I do
>> > have one
>> > client that insists on IPTC captions (the Sun Times News Group), so I
>> > use my
>> > girlfriend's Photoshop on her HP laptop (WinXP) to embed captions for
>> > that
>> > one client.
>> >
>> > Tyler Stoffel
>> >
>> > On 2/8/07, Demetri Mouratis <dmourati at cm.math.uiuc.edu> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hey Tyler,
>> >>
>> >> Welcome to the list.  I liked hearing about how you use the Gimp
>> instead
>> >> of Photoshop.  I'm neither a photog nor a imaging processing guy but I
>> >> have been trying to convince friends who are both that Linux/Gimp can
>> do
>> >> what they need.  They usually scoff and point to missing features in
>> the
>> >> Gimp.  I'm sure you would know if core functionality you needed was
>> >> missing and would gripe too.
>> >>
>> >> -D
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