2 Requirements, Download and Installation
2.1 Requirements
2.1.1 Operating systems
- MacOS High Sierra (10.13) or higher
- OpenSuse Linux 42.2 or higher
- Microsoft Windows 10
older versions may also work (64-bit OSes assumed; 32-bit Linux installations should work, 32-bit Windows-Variants might work but cannot be supported due to a lack of reference installations on our side)
2.1.2 Software requirements
It was announced by Apple that the Tcl/Tk package will be removed from the standard installation of MacOS with one of the next versions.
Thus, we announce and recommend to install Tcl/Tk 8.6.9 (or higher) from the internet repositories (see below), even on MacOS High Sierra (10.13). The support for Tcl/Tk 8.5 will stop from PFotos version 1.4 on.
- Tcl/Tk: Tcl/Tk 8.6.8 is required from MacOS Big Sur (11.3) on. Please obtain the package from ActiveState according to your desired licence model.
- libtcl: according to the installed Tcl/Tk version (already included in the MacOS and the Microsoft Windows Tcl/Tk packages)
- exiftool: Version 10.79 or newer
2.2 Download
PFotos can be found on our private webserver: Download
2.3 Installation
The installation procedures are currently not as comfortable as we are looking for. But the first goal was to make the application available. We are looking for installers for the different operating systems to make things easier and fail-safe with follow-up versions.
2.3.1 Linux
First, install the packages Tcl/Tk , libtcl and exiftool according to the procedures of your Linux distribution. Then, copy the file pfotos.tar.gz to the directory where you want to install it (and where you do have the necessary permissions). Extract it by
tar -xzvf pfotos.tar.gz
Open a command terminal in the directory PFOTOS and type the command
./pfotos.tcl
For more convenience, please generate a so called starter icon for your desktop according to the procedure for your Linux distribution.
2.3.2 MacOS
Install the exiftool from the installation package. To check the correct installation of exiftool open a Terminal window and execute the command exiftool. The manual page of exiftool shall be shown.
Finally, copy the application container PFotos.app either to the system’s application Folder Programs or to any other desired location and simply start the application like any other one.
2.3.3 Windows
Unpack the pfotos.zip archive and run pfotos_setup.exe to install PFotos. Install the exiftool Download ExifTool and take care to rename it from exiftool(k).exe to exiftool.exe. Otherwise the tool would only show its help pages.
2.4 What is new (History)
PFotos 1.5
After a new cross platform ExifToolGUI was released at ExifTool-GUI the decision was made to enable PFotos to transfer images to that tool. It must be considered, that those pieces of software are made to modify image meta data. So please take care of your image originals.
Unfortunately, the author informed that the development of and the support for ExifTool- GUI has stopped. Please check whether one of the still available installation packages still fit for your operating system.
Also new in the preferences tab is the possibility to to make use of ImageMagick and DCraw in PFotos as far as they are installed on your computer.
Since it is not possible to select executables in application containers on MacOS it was obvious to enable direct path entries for the external tools used by PFotos . This is visible in the preferences tab which have been rearranged a little for better overview. As a consequence, it is no longer necessary to include the exiftool by Phil Harvey in the PFotos package for Microsoft Windows . See the Windows section above. Additionally, the preferences tab of PFotos has been re-rearranged for a little better overview.
PFotos 1.4
New feature: New tab for histogram bins for hour of day – 24 bin for each hour of a day Update: exiftool: Version 12.25 included in the Microsoft Windows package
PFotos 1.3
New feature: Histogram of image quantity over time
Bugfix: Export of current selection corrected (mismatch to internal data structure re- paired)
Update: exiftool: Version 11.76 included in the Microsoft Windows package
PFotos 1.2
New feature: EXIF information of individual images can be stored as plain text
New feature: The operating system’s default file browser can be launched at the indi- vidual images’ parent directories
PFotos 1.1
New feature: User customizable settings for foreground (text) and background color
New feature: Search and Marking functionality in the detailed EXIF information window
Update: exiftool version 11.23 included in the Microsoft Windows package
PFotos 1.0
New feature: In the tiled selection view, mouse over gets the short EXIF information displayed as tool tip.
Fixed UTF-8 issue for Microsoft Windows when displaying detailed EXIF information.