Importing extra information from Imagefiles

[msg]

I would like to import folders of images to FM6. No problems there so far. The cach is that together with the actual picture (or a link to it) I would like to grab the extra information (keywords, copyright and so on...) that is stored within the file itself. This information is typed in by the photographer (usually in Photoshop) and it would be really nice not needing to rewrite it.

[jfmcel]

How is the information stored? What platform are you using?

[msg]

The platform for the filemakersolution is mac but the images could come from photoshop users on both mac os and windows I guess.

I have attached a samplefile created i photoshop 6.0 so that you can look at the source.

[jfmcel]

I am not certain, because no comment came across in the downloaded document, but you can use GraphicConverter to get the comment field out of an image via applescript...

Set theImage to choose file

tell application "GraphicConverter"

open theImage

set theComment to comment of window 1

end tell

You could make this part of your image import script. First you would need to select the image, open it in GraphicConverter (you can find this excellent shareware program at http://www.lemkesoft.com/) and then extract theComment. Then you would have to create an new record in FM, set your container field to the image and then set your comment field to theComment.

Test the above script in the AppleScript script editor. Look in the results window to see if you comment is being extracted. If it is, I can help you with the remainder of the AppleScript.

[kenneth2k1]

You could also look into the Troi File Plug in See if that does what you need

Ken