ANN: Phatch = PHoto bATCH processor and renamer based on PIL

[Mike Driscoll]

On Feb 20, 4:19 am, Stani <spe.stani... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Fred Pacquier <xnews2 <at> fredp.lautre.net> writes:
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> > Steve Holden <steve <at> holdenweb.com> said :
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> > > Perhaps you could put a link to the source on the Windows instalL page?
> > > I don't mind being a second-class citizen, but it's annoying to have to
> > > jump around like that.
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> > I'm interested too, and was also wondering if Phatch is as full-featured
> > unders Windows as under Linux, specifically the EXIF/IPTC functions made
> > available through pyexiv2 : exiv2 itself seems to discriminate between the
> > two, the Windows package only has the executable, not the library.
>
> Even without python-pyexiv2 Phatch features read-only EXIF support thanks to
> PIL. So you can name your files or write data stamps (date, aperature, velocity,
> ...) based on EXIF information. If you want to save EXIF and IPTC information to
> files you need python-pyexiv2. From its website:
> "However, the library and all the tools used are cross-platform, so very little
> tweaking should be needed to get it to work fine on Windows or MacOS X."http://tilloy.net/dev/pyexiv2/developers.htm
>
> The exiv2 website says:
> "The Windows package only contains the command line utility exiv2.exe
> (statically linked), manpage and a sample command file; get the source and doc
> packages for the library, documentation and other tools."http://www.exiv2.org/download.html
>
> So maybe someone can compile it.


I'm confused. What needs to be compiled exactly? Are there any
directions? I'm not seeing any at  that website. I can give it a go if
someone can give me advice.

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> But... Phatch is designed with flexibility in mind. If someone can point me to a
> free python library for Windows for EXIF and other metadata, I'll be happy to
> integrate support for it in Phatch. Ideas anyone?
>
> Or you could write a python wrapper around the executable.
>
> Stani
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Thanks,

Mike