Appendix

Known Issues

• The TIFF smart handler have troubles reading the XMP packet correctly - this is either due to Exempi 2.1.1 being installed via MacPorts or it is a 64-bit issue. To circumvent the problem, please use packet scanning when opening a TIFF file:

  xmp = XMPFiles(file_path="../test.tif", open_usepacketscanning=True )
  

Resources

• Project website – http://code.google.com/p/python-xmp-toolkit/
• XMP – http://www.adobe.com/products/xmp/
• Exempi – http://libopenraw.freedesktop.org/wiki/Exempi
• Adobe XMP Toolkit – http://www.adobe.com/devnet/xmp/

Glossary

XMP

eXtensible Metadata Platform

TODO list

License

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Changes

Release 1.0.2 ( June 21, 2011 )

• Fixed python 2.5 issue (ctypes.c_bool are not available in 2.5, so it was changed to ctypes.c_int).

Release 1.0.1 ( April 11, 2011 )

• Fixed issue on 32-bit systems.

Release 1.0 ( March 31, 2010 )

• Known issue #7 documented - issue with TIFF smart handler.
• Fixed issue #15 - 64-bit issues on Linux and Mac.
• Fixed issue #11 - Typo in does_property_exist.
• Thanks to marialaura.clemente for bug reports and patches.

Release 1.0rc2 (Feburary 16, 2010)

• Fixed issue #4, #5 and related to XMPIterator, file_to_dict and object_to_dict.
• Fixed issue in file_to_dict which didn’t pass parameters to XMPFiles.open_file() properly.
• Fixed issue #9 file_to_dict now raises IOError instead of returning an empty dictionary for non-existing files. (backward incompatible)
• Fixed issue #8 - spelling mistake in function call in XMPMeta.append_array_items
• Based on Exempi 2.1.1 and Adobe XMP Toolkit 4.4.2
• Thanks to olsenpk, pitymushroom, rmarianski, cfarrell1980 for bug reports and patches

Release 1.0rc1 (March 6, 2009)

• Backwards incompatible with previous releases.
• Based on Exempi 2.1.0 and Adobe XMP Toolkit 4.4.2
• Initialise and Terminate should no longer be called before usage.

Release 1.0beta1 (July 6, 2008)

• First public release.