Aperture 3: How metadata fields in Aperture 3 map to fields in other applications
Aperture 3 allows you to tag your images with metadata to help sort and identify photos. Learn about how keywords and other IPTC fields in Aperture 3 map to their equivalents in other applications.
IPTC(1) [FIXME: manual] IPTC(1)NAME
iptc - Utility for viewing and modifying the contents of IPTC metadata in images.
SYNOPSIS
iptc [[-q] | [--quiet]] [[-b] | [--backup]] [[-s] | [--sort]] [[-v VALUE] | [--value=VALUE]] [[[-l] | [--list]] [[-L TAGS] |
[--list-desc=TAGS]] [[-a TAGS] | [--add=TAGS]] [[-m TAGS] | [--modify=TAGS]] [[-d TAGS] | [--delete=TAGS]] [[-p TAGS] |
[--print=TAGS]]] [--help] [--version] [file...]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the iptc command.
This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.
iptc is a IPTC data editor. You can add, modify and delete ITPC metadata in images. You can also get the value of a particular tag.
-q, --quiet
Produce less verbose output.
-b, --backup
Backup any modified files.
-s, --sort
Sort tags before displaying or saving.
--help
Display an help message and exit.
--version
Display an iptc version number and exit.
-l, --list
List the name of all known tags (i.e. Caption, etc).
-L TAG, --list-desc=TAG
Print the name and description of TAG.
-a TAG, --add=TAG
Add new tag with identifier TAG.
-m TAG, --modify=TAG
Modify tag with identifier TAG (add if not present).
-v VALUE, --value=VALUE
Value for added/modified tag.
-d TAG, --delete=TAG
Delete tag with identifier TAG.
-p TAG, --print=TAG
Print value of tag with identifier TAG.
file
Files to edit.
EXAMPLES
Display the IPTC metadata contained in image.jpg: iptc image.jpg
Set caption "Foo" in all jpegs of the current dir: iptc -m Caption -v "Foo" *.jpg
Add keyword "vacation" to all jpegs: iptc -a Keywords -v "vacation" *.jpg
LICENSE
This manual page was written by Sylvain Le Gall gildor@debian.org for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). Permission
is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License, Version 2.1 or any
later version published by the Free Software Foundation; considering as source code all the file that enable the production of this
manpage.
AUTHOR
Sylvain Le Gall <gildor at-smtp-server debian.org>
Author.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2007 Sylvain Le Gall
[FIXME: source] Jan 17, 2007 IPTC(1)
