Re: [libpng:feature-requests] #32 Modern compressor

Chris Lilley <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.graphics.png.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>

On 2016-12-31 21:38, John Bowler wrote:
>
> I'm proposing simply adopting a new chunk 'eXIf' which contains the 
> raw profile, no keywords, no compression. The justification for that 
> is that it is trivial to handle for an existing app using even the 
> crusty libpng 1.2 that seems to be distributed with Ubuntu(!)
>
> Because the EXIF data is there in original encoding it's very easy to 
> extract from a PNG; scan through the file for a chunk named eXIf, the 
> preceding four bytes (chunk length) give the data length, the data 
> follows "eXIf" with a 4 byte CRC32 after that.
That makes total sense to me. I like that proposal.

-- 
Chris Lilley
@svgeesus
Technical Director @ W3C
W3C Strategy Team, Core Web Design
W3C Architecture & Technology Team, Core Web & Media

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