Additional ExifTool commands
With the
possibility to call additional ExifTool commands, you can easily adjust
GeoSetter to the personal requirements of a single user. With an example it
will be shown, how to write a value, which is set in the user interface, to
another field. Concretely the IPTC description will be written into the Exif
field UserComment.
To do this,
make the following:
- Open the settings of GeoSetter
(File | Settings) and activate “Use Additional ExifTool Commands after
GeoSetter Commands“ (1). Then give in the following command:
-execute -UserComment<$IPTC:Caption-Abstract
(2)
- Open the dialog “Edit Data“
(Images | Edit Data…) and activate the tab “Source/Description”. Enter the
description of your image into the field “Caption” (3).
- Afterwards save your settings
in the main window of GeoSetter (4), to accept your data
permanently in your image.
- When you are saving your data,
the following happens: GeoSetter internally splits the call for writing
the data (ExifTool parameter -execute), so that first the normal changes
(which you’ve entered in the user interface) will be written and are
available in your picture. Afterwards your manually added custom action
will be executed (-UserComment<$IPTC:Caption-Abstract). Now ExifTool
reads your previous entered caption (IPTC:Caption-Abstract) and writes
this caption into the UserComment of your picture.
- Now, there is the question, how
to find the description of the accordingly field descriptions. In the save
report (Images | Show Save Report…) you can see all the actions, which
were processed by ExifTool, when you are saving data. With these actions
(and perhaps with a little testing) you can find out easily the
accordingly fields.
To make the entrance easier for you, some of
the field descriptions were collected:
- Not only the UserComment of a
picture can be changed, you certainly can change more of your data.
Perhaps you get some good ideas by reading the documentation of Exiftool:
http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/exiftool_pod.html