[bonnyr]

If I wanted to write a plugin which performs some manipulation of the info in
the image (in particular the exif and the iptc info), can I do this using some
interface exposed by DLPro or am I supposed to treat the file independently
and assume DLPro only provides workflow hooks?

[Chris Breeze]

The plug-in SDK only provides the name of the file after it has been downloaded. The new SDK for DLPro v1.7 onwards also provides access to the token substition used in DLPro. It doesn't provide any routines for manipulating the image.

[bonnyr]

The plug-in SDK only provides the name of the file after it has been downloaded. The new SDK for DLPro v1.7 onwards also provides access to the token substition used in DLPro. It doesn't provide any routines for manipulating the image.
Chris,

Does that mean no access even to the IPTC and the EXIF areas?
What I would like to do is something similar to the Nikon Capture behaviour
of copying exif info into the IPTC area (for human consumption). I figured
this is probably not a request many people would make, so I wanted to
write a plug in. I guess I could use the Nikon SDK directly but then the
workflow benefits are diminished...

[Chris Breeze]

You can use the various tokens to fill in fields in the IPTC data using shooting data from the image (e.g. %i for the ISO) or access these from a plug-in, but the functions for reading and writing the EXIF and IPTC data aren't available to plug-ins.