InterMedia feat. IPTC

does interMedia support IPTC header information?
where can i find information about the IPTC support of interMedia?
thx

Annotator currently does support IPTC headers.
OrdImage will support it in the future, but does not today.
I would suggest you contact the product manager for interMedia ( [email protected] ) and let him know what you do and what your needs are...
Larry

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Support for CMYK and IPTC

Can interMedia store CMYK colorspace images and images containing IPTC metadata?

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Susan Mavris:
Can interMedia store CMYK colorspace images and images containing IPTC metadata?<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Any image, regardless of format and/or color space, can be stored in the interMedia ORDImage object type. Similarly, any audio or video can be stored in the ORDAudio or
ORDVideo object type.
If the format of the media being stored is natively understood by interMedia, we offer additional capability, namely attribute extraction and image processing.
The ORDImage import method automatically calls the setProperties method to extract image attributes. This is a problem for formats that are not natively understood by interMedia. If the format stored in the format attribute of the ORDImage object begins with "OTHER", the import method will not automatically call setProperties after importing the image into the BLOB. This
is how to avoid problems with importing CMYK and IPTC images using the ORDImage import method.
Please take a look at the interMedia Annotator Utility. This utility, available on OTN, is capable of parsing IPTC metadata
and uploading the metadata and the image into the database. Depending on what formats you're using, it may also be able to parse your CMYK color space images.

Picasa corrupts IPTC, Photoshop Program Error when saving

I am having a problem editing some JPGs in Photoshop. Some JPGs will open fine, but I can't save them. I get the error that Photoshop can not continue because of a program error (very generic error if ever there was one). After several hours researching, I've come to the conclusion that some IPTC data is "corrupt" (actually, "problematic" is probably a better word). Experimenting with some different files, I've figured out the common attribute amongst the files that won't save: I adjusted the date and time on them usng Google Picasa.
How do I fix this?
Note: reinstalling Photoshop, deleting preferences, rebooting, etc... are not valid suggestions (also, I've already tried all that). There is no problem with my system, it's definitely some type of incompatability between Picasa and Photoshop. In the future, I won't use Picasa to modify meta data, but for now, I have photos from 2 separate trips that I'd like to edit and can't.
Thanks in advance for any help you can offer, this has been driving me crazy!
Additional info:
I'm using CS4. The problem occurs in both 64 bit and 32 bit versions of the software. In addition to being unable to save, I am also unable to open up the File Info dialog box. I am running Windows 7 Home Premium, 64 bit on a quad core with 4 GB of RAM. I have plenty of free harddrive space. I have the Production Premium CS4 suite installed and no other Adobe software installed (well, other than Acrobat Reader and Flash Player).

Hi Paul. I noticed this in the documentation for exiftools, which I suspect maybe related to the problem:
Commonly, in JPEG images, the DateTimeOriginal, CreateDate and
ModifyDate values must all be changed. For convenience, a shortcut tag
called AllDates has been defined to represent these three tags.
So I ran the following command:
exiftool "-AllDates-=0:0:0 0:0:1" *.jpg
But all that did was shift all the dates by 1 second, the various fields still don't match. Do you know the syntax to update all the date fields to match? Right now according to Picasa the "Camera Date" and "File Date" match and are correct, "Digitized Date" and "Modified Date" are off by an hour.

Can't find IPTC metadata after Aperture export into Lightroom

Hi all,
I'm sure you've already worked through this pain, so maybe you'll have some insight for me:
I am exporting approximately 25,000 images from Aperture 2.1.4 and importing them into Lightroom 4. I started working with my small projects of about 300 images to test. From Aperture, I exported the Master files with the Sidecar (IPTC4.XMP) files. [My masters are a mix of .jpgs and .NEF, and I read that the jpgs don't always carry the meta data through]. I successfully imported the master files into Lightroom and ran the "Read Metadata from File" command. I also exported the keywords file from Aperture and imported those into Lightroom as well.
Prior to exporting, I edited one file in Aperture by entering "test caption", "test location", "test keyword", "test copyright" etc. into several of the IPTC fields. These fields are NOT appearing in the equivalent Lightroom fields. I checked the .XMP file (using text edit) and it does contain the correct "test values". I am getting all of the EXIF metadata, but none of my custom values.
Is it as simple as not looking in the right place in Lightroom for my values?

John, and Brent -
Yes, thank you, you were both right. Here is an updated screenshot showing the image in both applications, with the metadata where I expected it. The trick, in my case, was to follow "Method 1" in the link above, to write the IPTC data into the .jpgs. I'll use the sidecar method for the .NEFs, probably. Also, expanding the fields proved that the keyword was present. I'm sure I can mess around with the Display Metadata options from Default to other things. All well; heroes to the rescue!
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Grace

Using long vs. clob datatype with Oracle 8.1.7 and interMedia

I am trying to determine the best datatype to use for a column I
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like setAsciiStream() and setCharacterStream() are documented to
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using the interMedia contains() function, I get strange
results. If I run my search on Oracle 8.1.6 for Windows, the
results seem to be correct. If I run the same search on Oracle
8.1.7 for Linux, the results are usually incorrect. The same
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column type from long to clob. Using the clob type may not be
an option for me since the standard JDBC API's to transfer data
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with standard JDBC API's. My customer wishes to purchase a
version of Oracle for Linux that will allow us to implement the
search capability he requires. Any guidance would be greatly
appreciated.

I've finally solved it!
I downloaded the following jre from blackdown:
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I've no idea what the DYNMOTIF means (apart from being something to do with Motif - but you don't have to be a linux guru to work that out ;)) - but, hell, it works.
And after sitting in front of this machine for 3 days trying to deal with Oracle's, frankly PATHETIC install, that's so full of holes and bugs, that's all I care about..
The one bundled with Oracle 8.1.7 doesn't work with Linux redhat 6.2EE.
Don't oracle test their software?
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How to insert image into table and to in Oracle 9i intermedia?

Mr Lawrence,
I want to ask something:
I use Oracle 9i intermedia
If i use this script:
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then
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N also i want to ask how to display to screen all of my image from images table?
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thanks Mr Lawrence

-- First step would be to create a directory in oracle and map it to the folder where your image resides.
create directory image_dir as *'c:\image_dir';*
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CREATE TABLE test_image
ID NUMBER,
image_filename VARCHAR2(50),
image BLOB
Now let's write the procedure to insert the image in the table above.
CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE insert_image_file (p_id NUMBER, p_image_name IN VARCHAR2)
IS
src_file BFILE;
dst_file BLOB;
lgh_file BINARY_INTEGER;
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(ID, image_name, image
VALUES (p_id, p_image_name, EMPTY_BLOB ()
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INTO dst_file
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How do I use XSLT & XML is stored in InterMedia Text.....

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null

Your problem here is that when you store an XML document in a CLOB and search it using intermedia, when you do a query like:
SELECT xml_text
FROM bookstore
WHERE CONTAINS(xml_text,'John WITHIN authorsec')>0
The output from the XML SQL Utility using getXMLDOM() looks like this:<ROWSET>
<ROW>
<XML_TEXT><![CDATA[
<bookstuff>
<authorsec>
<name>Steve</name>
</authorsec>
etc.
</bookstuff>
]]>
</XML_TEXT>
</ROW>
</ROWSET>with the document as a single text value (it's actually just a text node, not a CDATA node) but the above illustrates conceptually that the whole XML document is one big text node.
To transform this you'll need to parse that XML text into an XML document in memory by passing constructing a StringReader() on the text value and parsing that reader.
null

Any way to highlight pdf file in Intermedia?

markup only works for text file,right?any way to highlight pdf file in Intermedia?Thanks.

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Omar Alonso ([email protected]):
interMedia/Oracle Text doesn't highlight the PDF or Word document.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
I have the same problem. Will Oracle highlight word-documents in a future version? Or does anybody know another solution, i.e. a sdk from another company, which is built upon intermedia?
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null

Filename to IPTC Title, but without extension. (Currently using DAM script)

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Change:
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To:
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Display of IPTC description during mouse-over in filmstrip

Windows XP SP3, LR3
When you move your mouse over an image in the film strip, you get a temporary popup showing the IPTC title and description fields from the image.
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This can be a problem when the description field is VERY long. It can cover up a significant portion of the screen and can be very annoying.
I have a number of pictures where I have a VERY long narative about that particular picture. It is annoying as I move over these images in the filmstrip and see huge popups momentarly appear.
There should be some way to either disable this feature, or at least limit the amount of description field that is shown.
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Thank you! I should have thought of that myself. Now that I think about it, I knew that what was displayed there was controlled by what you have set in View options.
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Is there a way to edit IPTC data of an image with AppleScript?

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Intermedia index creation error

Hi,
I am getting the following error while importing a table with intermedia index on it.
error occured in execution of ODCIINDEXCREATE routine.
intermedia text error : Lost RPC connection to external procedure agent.
at CTXSYS.DRUE
at CTXSYS.TEXTINDEXMETHODS
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Error while rebuilding InterMedia index

While executing "alter index ABC.SAMPLE_INTERMEDIA_INDEX rebuild online parameters( 'sync memory 45M' );", we encounter the following error:
java.sql.SQLException: ORA-29855: error occurred in the execution of ODCIINDEXCREATE routine
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SEGMENT TBLSPC INITIAL_EX NEXT_EX MIN_EX MAX_EX STATUS
SYSTEM SYSTEM 57344 57344 2 505 ONLINE
RBS01 RBS 1048576 1048576 40 32765 ONLINE
RBS02 RBS 1048576 1048576 40 32765 ONLINE
RBS03 RBS 1048576 1048576 40 32765 ONLINE
RBS04 RBS 1048576 1048576 40 32765 ONLINE
RBS05 RBS 1048576 1048576 40 32765 ONLINE
RBS06 RBS 1048576 1048576 40 32765 ONLINE
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but when i try to connect as system/manager@extproc_connection_data it throws a error. what might be the problem. can u help me out in this????
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Please more support for the IPTC Headline tag!

The use of the IPTC Headline tag (as opposed to the Title tag) is being discussed in posts back to 2007.
Basically it's weird that Lightroom supports the Title tag with filters and search function whereas the Headline tag sees none of that treatment.
Per definition the Headline tag
"... is a brief, publishable synopsis or summary of the contents of the photograph. Like a news story's lead, the Headline should grab attention and summarize the image's content. Headlines must be succinct. Leave any supporting narrative for the Description field. Do not, however, confuse the Headline term with Title."
whereas the Title tag
"... can include a shorthand reference for the image or “photograph” - primarily for identification. The title of an image should be a short, human-readable name - text and/or numeric reference - and may take several forms. For photographers, this might be the filename of their original scan or digital camera file. For news organizations it might be the name of a story it accompanies. The Title term should not be confused with the Headline term, which is a short synopsis of the photograph's content."
These definitions should make it fairly clear that the Headline tag needs at least the same tools treatment as the Title tag has.

Submit a feature request to:
http://feedback.photoshop.com/

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