Re: EXIF support in PNG [was: Modern compressor]

if I'm not entirely mistaken, I've added all sorts of metadata chunks/conversion (and corresponding spec impl, even if considered exotic or not widely adopted) to SView5 - you may want to check it out, if you need some reference or something to create test files (e.g. jpeg/tiff-exif to png and back)

Von meinem iPhone gesendet

> Am 31.12.2016 um 07:58 schrieb Willem van Schaik <[email protected]>:
> 
>> On 2016-12-30 22:30, Cosmin Truta wrote:
>> Cosmin Truta wrote:
>> 
>> Can we still standardize eXIf? Do we still have enough people eager to
>> discuss it and vote it? Does the big world outside of our little group
>> still care?
>> 
> 
> Oh yes, I would discuss this and vote for it !!  Either pro or con ... :-)
> 
> I'm not saying I would be an expert on either PNG or EXIF, but it makes 
> lots of sense to add such a chunk to the PNG spec.
> 
> If we can't make such a simple thing happen (in any way, shape or form) 
> we did design a bad standard that can't slowly grow and evolve itself.
> 
> PNG has been static for twenty years. Which is a good but also a very 
> bad thing.
> 
> Let's just make a small step to see if it is a standard that can evolve. 
> And an additional EXIF chunk seems like an easy first step.
> 
> We should make the effort !!
> 
> Willem
> 
> 
> 
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