XMP files

[pgman]

Hi,

I'm not here to restart the debates on the XMP implementation with Bibble/ASP, BUT...

Is there a way of setting ASP to generate the standard XMP file at the same time as the ASP .cr2.XMP or .nef.XMP file so that other software can view the IPTC information?

I have forgotten too many times to generate the standard XMP, then I have a hard time finding the photo for which I should generate the standard XMP file.

Thanks

[afx]

Unfortunately not ;-(

cheers
afx

[andreas]

bash is you friend.. save this as checkForDefaultXMP, make executable and call with the path to check as its argument:

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#!/bin/bash

# if argument is directory check it 
if [ -d "$1" ]; then
	find "$1" -name "*.xmp" -exec checkForDefaultXMP {} \;
	exit 0
fi

# image argument...

# image name to check
IMG="$1"
ORG=$IMG

# raw patterns to include
IMG=${IMG%.nef.xmp}
IMG=${IMG%.cr2.xmp}

# no match for default xmps
[ "$ORG" = "$IMG" ] && exit 0

[ -f "$IMG.xmp" ] || echo "no default XMP for: ${ORG%.xmp}"

exit 0

Use with care, only quick test done. You can add more raw patterns in the script.

Andreas