I want to use FM to archive photos in a database. How can I import photos and preserve the IPTC caption info on the JPGs & Tiff so they are searchable information?

Any help on this would be appreciated...

Hi valyvent,

Bulk image import procedures can be scripted using the Troi File plug-in:

Troi Automatisering:

http://www.troi.com/software/fileplugin.html

and the plug-in functions include:

External("TrFile-MetaData", "switch|FileSpec" )

for which the switch parameter options are:

-getIPTC[color:"white"] ------------------ get the IPTC metadata (Photoshop's File Info)

-getExif[color:"white"] ------------------- get the Exif metadata (A standard for Digital camera's)

-getJPEGComment[color:"white"] ------- get the JPEG comment metadata of a JPEG file

...not to mention a couple of dozen other very useful functions!