Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name : mapivi Version : 0.4.1 Upstream Author : Martin Herrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://herrmanns-stern.de/software/mapivi/mapivi.shtml * License : GPL Description : picture viewer, organizer, and largely lossless editor
A image viewer which is also able to display metadata from JPEG pictures, like EXIF, comments, and IPTC/IIM. As a stand alone tool, there is no need for a web server, online access or a database. MaPiVi deals with EXIF data (like timestamp, camera model, focal length, exposure time, and aperture) and is able to create and edit JPEG comments. It also allows the user to rename pictures according to their internal date/time, do lossless rotation and cropping, build picture galleries for the web and other stuff. It is also useful to organize and search digital pictures. The idea of using MaPiVi as an picture organizer is to keep user, EXIF, and IPTC information where it belongs -- in the pictures -- as well in a searchable MaPiVi database. MaPiVi is able to do image processing by acting as a frontend (GUI) for many proven command line tools, like the Image Magick tools. Note that MaPiVi depends on the Perl module Image::IPTCInfo which I will be ITP'ing separately, and the Perl module Tk::JPEG which is not in Debian and I'd rather not package since it's apparently been rolled into the current perl-tk, and I see no reason to bloat the archive (unless someone wiser than I in this issue disagrees). MaPiVi will probably not be uploaded until perl-tk is upgraded to an appropriate version, although I intend to make a private test package that embeds Tk::JPEG (contact me if you'd like to test it, if I get enough requests I'll put it up on some webspace). Rene Weber
