I have a very large library of photos that have been carefully captioned and keyworded using IPTC tags (using a different application). I would like to use Picasa to browse and view this collection, but Picasa does not seem to see these existing captions and keywords.
Is it a known bug that Picasa ignores pre-existing captions/keywords, or is this a compatability problem? I have tried both the Windows and Linux version of Picasa.
I don't have this problem... Quite the opposite. I never ever ever use Picasa to write meta-data to my pics. Picasa sees IPTC mark-up I make with a (GREAT but now dead, sadly) utility called PixVue and also by Adobe Bridge. It is never a problem.
As an organizer and viewer? Second to none, Picasa rocks. Picasa even indexes more IPTC than it exposes... so info in the IPTC Title, City, State, etc fields can all be hit with Picasa Search. It's awesome. I just wish it could write those fields. <sigh> IMHO, Picasa's second biggest flaw is that it is not a real IPTC/XMP editor - I'd love to have just one app for my whole workflow.
What app did you use? If you can send me a file, I'd be interested to look at it.
> I have a very large library of photos that have been carefully > captioned and keyworded using IPTC tags (using a different > application). I would like to use Picasa to browse and view this > collection, but Picasa does not seem to see these existing captions > and keywords.
> Is it a known bug that Picasa ignores pre-existing captions/keywords, > or is this a compatability problem? I have tried both the Windows and > Linux version of Picasa.
After some further digging I have discovered the source of the problem. It turns out that if the "Character Set" (1:90) or "Version" (1:0) datasets are present inside the IPTC metadata, Picasa will skip over all the metadata entirely. That's somewhat unfortunate, but at least I know how to fix it now. Google developers, if you are reading this, please consider changing this behavior.
I have also observed that if the IPTC headers are buried deeper in the image, beyond the "Start of Frame" JPEG marker, Picasa will not find them. I consider that a bug as well, but it can be worked around.
> I don't have this problem... Quite the opposite. I never ever ever use > Picasa to write meta-data to my pics. Picasa sees IPTC mark-up I make > with a (GREAT but now dead, sadly) utility called PixVue and also by > Adobe Bridge. It is never a problem.
> As an organizer and viewer? Second to none, Picasa rocks. Picasa even > indexes more IPTC than it exposes... so info in the IPTC Title, City, > State, etc fields can all be hit with Picasa Search. It's awesome. I > just wish it could write those fields. <sigh> IMHO, Picasa's second > biggest flaw is that it is not a real IPTC/XMP editor - I'd love to > have just one app for my whole workflow.
> What app did you use? If you can send me a file, I'd be interested to > look at it.
> ~J
> On Apr 28, 4:22 pm, dcm wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I have a very large library of photos that have been carefully > > captioned and keyworded using IPTC tags (using a different > > application). I would like to use Picasa to browse and view this > > collection, but Picasa does not seem to see these existing captions > > and keywords.
> > Is it a known bug that Picasa ignores pre-existing captions/keywords, > > or is this a compatability problem? I have tried both the Windows and > > Linux version of Picasa.
