Formatting of displayed information (EXIF/IPTC)

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Riezi
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Joined: Mon Dec 15, 2008 10:29 am
Location: Berlin

Formatting of displayed information (EXIF/IPTC)

Post by Riezi »

Would be very nice if the displayed information could be formatted in different ways.
I display many informations in a manual slideshow (everytime I have forgotten how the name of that little church was... :wink: )

1. I display the EXIF altitude.
I would like to add a "m" for meter, but if there is no altitude the single "m" is very useless/disturbing.
Best would be to choose the format (as for the date) for example "[0,0 m]" or "[00,00 Meter]" or "[0 meter above sealevel]".
This would also avoid the senseless decimals which are displayed now ("78.00000 m").

2. As I display several informations in a row I separate them with an "-" ("Germany - Berlin - Berlin").
But if there is a information not present it looks not good: "Germany - - Berlin".
It would be perfect to add logical operators for example: IF {IPTC:state} <> "" THEN "- " & {IPTC:state}
or to hide the explanation "IF {IPTC:country} <> "" THEN "Country=" & {IPTC:county}.

3. Formatting would be great: color for every line or even better change color tags ({red} {IPTC:country} {green} {IPTC:state} {RGB:0000FF} {IPTC:city}
perhaps also the possibility for simple format tags like {center} {left} ... {bold} [italic} {normal}...

Just ideas... Thanx.
Benrasi
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Joined: Wed Dec 05, 2018 5:56 pm

Re: Formatting of displayed information (EXIF/IPTC)

Post by Benrasi »

I also like the idea of the "if" function. Could use it for the focal length in 35mm which is not available in all pictures.

The general wish I have is so extend the SAVE function to the other fields like color, position, titel.... At the moment only the information is saved.

But to be sure we talk abount the same config: I go for number 2

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Greetings,
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jotess
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Joined: Sun Jan 06, 2008 9:01 pm
Location: Darmstadt

Re: Formatting of displayed information (EXIF/IPTC)

Post by jotess »

I was about to file a feature request, but searching for "altitude" I realized the feature is already there, just well hidden:
I would like to display the altitude information in the custom lines for miniature images. But the available IPTC/EXIF/XMP fields don't contain this item.
I found now that it is present in the tree structure for selecting information to display in full screen mode. I added it there and transferred it via clipboard to the custom line where I want so see it - and it works.
So my feature request would be: Please make the more comprehensive tree structure available as a source for the miniatures as well.
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