Re: EXIF support in PNG
Glenn Randers-Pehrson <[email protected]>
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On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 12:51 AM, Cosmin Truta <[email protected]> wrote: > > To me, anything that's better than hex-encoding the EXIF blob and > putting it into zTXt is altogether a better solution. I'm thinking > here about the user who doesn't care in the slightest about > implementation: one old clunky and supposedly bad in other > inconsequential ways (I mean EXIF-in-zTXt) gets compared to the new, > shiny and well-designed eXIf chunk; and look, how much *smaller* is > the *old* file! What extra useless stuff could have they put in the > new one! > No offense, but I'd like to remind everyone that the EXIF-in-zTXt has been working flawlessly in ImageMagick and GraphicsMagick for over a decade. I agree that it's ugly, but it was a necessary workaround when any kind of EXIF chunk failed to get any traction here. "Upgrading" IM/GM to use the eXIf chunk that we are now proposing will be trivial. Glenn ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ png-mng-misc mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/png-mng-misc