Re: EXIF support in PNG

Willem van Schaik <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.graphics.png.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
folks, didn't see any responses on two issues I raised yesterday (or did 
I miss it somehow ?)


#1 - we have to solve this!!
looking at the EXIF metadata in eog, I noticed that one of the markers 
is "Compression" so maybe is a need for a change in the EXIF standard, 
namely to add "PNG Compression" (I'm talking here about the main 
picture, not the thumbnail)

it is probably tag #103 on page 28 of the JEITA/CIPA spec - or is that 
only for the thumbnail, anyway when the mail image is stored as PNG 
instead of JPEG, that must be reflected in the EXIF data


#2 - of lesser importance
we could always request the CIPA folks to add in the EXIF standard PNG 
as a fourth compression method for thumbnails; which wouldn't require 
any change to the PNG standard, because from a PNG perspective we 
consider the EXIF chunk a "black box"


Willem


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Willem van Schaik
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http://www.schaik.com/


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