Re: [patch] gqview 2.1 and FUJI raw files (.raf)

Lars Ellenberg <l.g.e-S0/[email protected]> Sun, 15 May 2005 20:27:34 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.apps.gqview.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
/ 2005-05-15 13:28:59 -0400
\ John Ellis:
> > > > and src/raw_format_offsets.c, the later containing some stubs and the
> > > > implementation for the fuji .raf format.
> > >
> > > I prefer to keep all image formats to stay with using a gdk-pixbuf loader.
> > 
> > right. but.
> > I did not want to mess with a huge project like gtk.
> > and it would not help for the exif data, either,
> > so you'd have to special-case it in gqview anyways, right?
> > unless you use some of the exif sources which already handle raw
> > formats, libexif knows about some since december 2004.
> 
> For the EXIF parser I do not mind adding support for additional file formats
> that also use EXIF. And looking at the way you simply point the image loader to
> jpeg data embedded within the raw file - I am starting to agree that this is an
> acceptable approach.
> 
> The only missing element at this point is adding an additional filter to support
> the extensions used by the raw file format(s). For Fuji is this always "*.raf"
> or are there variants ?

I'm not sure, but I think all Fuji raw formats are .raf, yes.

please also have a look at
http://www.penguin.cz/~utx/gnome-dcraw

and the thread at
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2004-March/msg00230.html

	Lars Ellenberg


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