Re: What it the correct way to add photos to a gedcom??

Hi Stephen

I suggest you log a bug report at:

https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Gedcom

Although don't hold your breath :-(.

On 24/12/12 09:32, Stephen Woodbridge wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I want to automate adding photos to my gedcom file.
>
> I created a trivial file in PAF 5.2.18.0 and added a photo and got the
> following file:
>
> 0 HEAD
> 1 SOUR PAF
> 2 NAME Personal Ancestral File
> 2 VERS 5.2.18.0
> 2 CORP The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
> 3 ADDR 50 East North Temple Street
> 4 CONT Salt Lake City, UT 84150
> 4 CONT USA
> 1 DEST PAF
> 1 DATE 23 Dec 2012
> 2 TIME 17:12:31
> 1 FILE test.ged
> 1 GEDC
> 2 VERS 5.5
> 2 FORM LINEAGE-LINKED
> 1 CHAR UTF-8
> 1 LANG English
> 1 SUBM @SUB1@
> 0 @SUB1@ SUBM
> 1 NAME Stephen Woodbridge
> 0 @I1@ INDI
> 1 NAME Stephen /Woodbridge/
> 2 SURN Woodbridge
> 2 GIVN Stephen
> 1 SEX M
> 1 _UID 51190DB94CBF254F8654B3F06C2E42343CF0
> 1 CHAN
> 2 DATE 23 Dec 2012
> 3 TIME 17:11:18
> 1 OBJE
> 2 FORM jpg
> 2 FILE Misc photos\Steve-large.jpg
> 2 TITL This is a caption.
> 2 NOTE Bla bla bla.
> 2 _SCBK Y
> 2 _PRIM Y
> 2 _TYPE PHOTO
> 2 _SSHOW Y
> 0 TRLR
>
> I tried to create the same in Gedcom.pm but I get these warnings:
>
> FORM is not a sub-item of OBJE
> FILE is not a sub-item of OBJE
> TITL is not a sub-item of OBJE
> *:0: FILE is not a sub-item of OBJE
> *:0: TITL is not a sub-item of OBJE
> *:0: FORM is not a sub-item of OBJE
>
> The output file appears to be created as requested, but I'm not sure why
> I'm getting these warnings.
>
> I also noticed that PAF adds a lot of _TAG items to the file. Is this
> part of the standard for application specific tags?
>
> Thanks,
> -Steve

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