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

Hi Ron,

Thanks I did not know where to write it up.

https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=82196

In case anyone want to track it.

Thanks,
   -Steve

On 12/23/2012 7:27 PM, Ron Savage wrote:
> 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
>