Metadata Export

[ASUNDER]

Can you add metadata to the export persona please.

So that our personal digital signature can be auto-written to the picture files we create with Affinity Designer 2.
It would have templates that are saved with the export presets.  So we type out our info one time only.  There would be a drop down menu on the export preset options to choose your metadata template and so that export preset would always write it to the files exported with that preset.

Things like author, rating, copyright info, comment, group, and tags.
And whatever else people would want.  SVG files don't seem to work well with metadata though, which is of course depressing.

[carl123]

For those that can't wait...

APhoto can record your desired/custom metadata to a macro

Which you can apply to any APhoto or Designer file

 

 

[ASUNDER]

8 hours ago, carl123 said:

For those that can't wait...

APhoto can record your desired/custom metadata to a macro

Which you can apply to any APhoto or Designer file

 

 

I can't seem to find this app.  Getting results for tutorials on metadata.  Where can I find this?

[acsr]

@ASUNDER Please look at my detailed Feature Request in this post and add yourself to watch and to support it with a reaction.

As a possible temporary cure for your rising depression you can help learning a new skill which is useful anyway: 
You may also find some useful hints for workaround workflows for managing metadata using commandline tools like exiftool. 

On the Mac Automator is your friend to create Droplets or Action Folders where you simply drop in the exported files, and a Terminal command is executed on the file.
If you are on Windows Autohotkey is a good startpoint for non programmers with some energy to write simple scripts.

One trick could be to add arguments to control the exiftool command in the filename of a normal preset and then the actual magic is done by the shellscript inside of Automator or Autohotkey. Automator can also trigger Python Scripts.

But… At the end: It should be fixed by Serif in their tools. One thing is missing as well are saving and loading presets in a plaintext format like XML or JSON. Like Adobe does it. This is something I would like to search for existing forum entries first and then eventually write an own feature request.

One more suggestion:
Before opening a lonesome caller in the wild post, search and add yourself to existing efforts.
If you can help to add your personal needs & requirements for metadata (e.g. the SVG use case) to the proposal it would be great.

Example:
The current Update in Affinity 2.6 for the DPI issue is an example. I could help there with a precise Error description to make it easy for developers to fix the issue.
 

 

[ASUNDER]

1 hour ago, acsr said:

As a possible temporary cure for your rising depression

My rising wwwwhat?  😅
Is this about the AI topic?  You realize the common man is being trampled because he's not sticking up for himself.

Exiftool looks handy.  I have it but haven't dived (dove?) in very much.  I've been trying to set up my metadata system using Directory Opus.
Been hounding those devs to make auto writing of metadata for folders.  The desire is if a file gets put into a folder then its metadata gets auto-wrote according to a template.  So I had the thought, for my vector pictures at least, for my art program to do it.  And of course, in the now expected modern clownworld fashion, in the age of quantum computing and back flipping robots my fully featured art program can't auto write basic text to basic ass files.  Shocking!