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+# pyExifToolGUI
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+# !!! DISCONTINUED !!!
+## I stopped the development of python pyside gui. My latest changes were somewhere in 2015. 
+After that time a number of contributors added patches to further expand functionality or to fix bugs.
+Contributors were (in alfabetical order): darkdragon-001, emteejay, GadgetSteve, jedi and jejimenez.
+I realy thank them for their contributions and hope I do not disappoint them too much.
+
+**WhatS next?**
+As I (involuntarily) started to program in java for Android some time ago, I decided to convert my pyExifToolGUI to java. 
+Java has some great advantages comparted to a Gui based python program:
+* It is (also) cross platform
+* It comes with the builtin Swing/AWT gui. No more tedious packaging (due to the pyside GUI) dfor every platform.
+* The packaged apps are much smaller and a java jar runs on any platform that has a JRE (Java Runtime Environment), whether it is Linux, AIX, BSD, windows, Mac OS/X, RiscOS, Sun Solaris, etc.
+
+So I'm curently working on jExifToolGUI.
+
+<hr>
+The website is https://hvdwolf.github.io/pyExifToolGUI/
+
+pyExifToolGui is a python pySide QT4 script program that reads and writes
+exif, xmp and IPTC tags from/to image files using exiftool. It can use a
+"reference" image as source image to copy data from. 
+A strong point of this software is the ability to write the data,
+copied or not from a source image, to multiple images at once.
+The main goal for this tool was the ability to write gps data to my images as I
+photograph a lot in buildings like Churches/Cathedrals and Musea (when allowed),
+which means that the gps functionality of the camera doesn't function.
+Next to the gps functionality pyExifToolGUI will slowly grow into a general 
+exiftool Gui and will also write other tags to your images.
+This pyExifToolGUI tool is also a geotagging tool as of version 0.4.
+
+pyExifToolGui is a graphical frontend for the excellent open source
+command line tool ExifTool(1) by Phil Harvey.
+pyExifToolGui is not a complete ExifTool Gui, far from that.
+I needed a tool to add gps data to my images and couldn't find one
+and decided to write my own. 
+"By accident" it contains more functions as ExifTool is a powerful tool
+and once you have written the basic program Gui skeleton it is relatively easy
+to add extra functionality, which is basically to add more exif/xmp/iptc 
+tags and add them to the "write to image" function. This is a time consuming 
+process but not a difficult one.
+
+This program is completely free, but you can donate any amount to me to show
+your appreciation. See the Help menu in the program or the link below (2).
+
+This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or
+modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
+as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version
+3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied
+warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
+PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License for more details."
+You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public
+License along with this program.  If not, see www.gnu.org/licenses
+
+
+(1): http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/
+(2): http://members.home.nl/harryvanderwolf/pyexiftoolgui/donate.html
+
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+This file: Version 0.40, 2013-12-02, H van der Wolf